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It's a bad dream..happens any moment ...late summer, or...early winter... ...suddenly, you're among unfamiliar faces, ....or places...in a  strange island, where, a cloak of confusion spreads...thick, to the skin, to the mind,  it sticks... eyes gape, in fear...in panic... there are only questions...no answers those that had been asked, seem unasked... ....... a moment of normalcy, a calm...arises, ...as if, you've woken from your bad dream a bliss, that is momentary...because ....at the back of your mind, lurks, a phantom fear...of the dark dream setting in once again...of getting lost again, alone...floating through the waters of oblivion ........and it is not known, when the waters .....again, would clear... ........ this dream comes on and off, it frequents, ....up to a point...when yesterdays vanish you're on your own...afraid...isolated... .....what happens tomorrow when your eyes meet with those of your loved ones, would there be a spark? make you remember? in that dream space of strange faces and surroundings? why do you attempt to escape? where does that urge to flee, come from? why do you want to go unnoticed? do you feel abandoned? are you hurt? do you recognize that feeling? ....... you struggle...and in brief moments of clarity, your eyes ask the questions.......in silence... "will i ever wake up from this nightmare?" ....... It's a dream that can happen .........in the late summer, or early winter....of one's life... Sally Copyright April 24, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan #npmdream #nightmare #oblivion #alzheimer'sdisease
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Apr 23, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 at 11:44 PM UTC
NIGHTMARE
It's a bad dream..happens any moment ...late summer, or...early winter... ...suddenly, you're among unfamiliar faces, ....or places...in a  strange island, where, a cloak of confusion spreads...thick, to the skin, to the mind,  it sticks... eyes gape, in fear...in panic... there are only questions...no answers those that had been asked, seem unasked... ....... a moment of normalcy, a calm...arises, ...as if, you've woken from your bad dream a bliss, that is momentary...because ....at the back of your mind, lurks, a phantom fear...of the dark dream setting in once again...of getting lost again, alone...floating through the waters of oblivion ........and it is not known, when the waters .....again, would clear... ........ this dream comes on and off, it frequents, ....up to a point...when yesterdays vanish you're on your own...afraid...isolated... .....what happens tomorrow when your eyes meet with those of your loved ones, would there be a spark? make you remember? in that dream space of strange faces and surroundings? why do you attempt to escape? where does that urge to flee, come from? why do you want to go unnoticed? do you feel abandoned? are you hurt? do you recognize that feeling? ....... you struggle...and in brief moments of clarity, your eyes ask the questions.......in silence... "will i ever wake up from this nightmare?" ....... It's a dream that can happen .........in the late summer, or early winter....of one's life... Sally Copyright April 24, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan #npmdream #nightmare #oblivion #alzheimer'sdisease
(two older friends manifested early, but progressing signs of Alzheimer's Disease. I saw them deteriorate...smiling when in their normal minds;) as if nothing ever happened.....one is gone...the other, still struggling.)
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F/Filipino
Apr 23, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 at 11:44 PM UTC
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