Lucid Dreaming/ I become Captain Marvel in my Sleep

sylviasearcher



Sinking deep and low beneath my conscious
Awake in a darkness
Familiar crossroad
And a destination beckons

 

The lights are extinguished
As the moonlight is lost to doubt
I’m lost amidst a foreboding feeling
Fallen, broken, caged. No way out

 

Crashing down upon the unforgiving tarmac behind my eyes
Alive but unseeing
Within grasp but no path
The tick of my chest reckons

 

A labarynth of alleyways appears
The shadowed lanes where people discard their dirt
A mass of sinister same faces pushing bins
Not quite hunting but omnipotent. My body. Inert.

 

Confusion
Distortion
Reality bends
Suddenly nowhere
The universe descends

 

Alone but connected
Defying man-made laws
No-one could see me
But believe me I soared!

 

Through unending dark inside I felt light
Inside was knowing with nothing in sight
Weightless and free my conscious took flight
And the universe shifted as I spun through the night

 

Fearless and free
From the chains of my mind
A thrill of excitement
Reaching forth from behind

 

Until

 

I feel a tug and it stops me quite dead
Where must I return? A blank space fills my head
I drift through the layers of uncertainty heavy like lead
And return to my body and remember my bed

 

Awake from slumber

Restless from seeing

Sensing the shifting 

From outside of my being 

 

 

 

 

  • Author: sylviasearcher (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 25th, 2019 10:58
  • Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this after a friend encouraged me to make a poem of a dream I told him about. I’m not sure it’s great as I have written in between a busy day with my only sustenance a half cup of tea at 7.30 am. I toyed with the idea of a final verse but for now liked the idea of an abrupt end.
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Comments3

  • orchidee

    Good write Captain! You'll be Wonder Woman too, and Supergirl!

    • sylviasearcher

      Thanks orchi, I’m not sure I have any satin tights, so had better stick to captain marvel

    • Neville

      Although I found these words initially a little disjointed.. I found the underlying theme quite captivating... you might very easily have been referring to a number of experiences.. including outer body experiences like astral flight or projection.... There now.. that feels better N

      • sylviasearcher

        Yes I felt that and I think it was because the dream was disjointed with missing parts. I also have a final stanza, a friend I shared this with said it seemed better with the last verse.
        Thanks for persevering!

        • Neville

          No problem, my middle name should have been Percy....

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        • Nicholas Browning

          Good old bit of Coldplay to add that little spice!
          A nice little write, Syl.

          • sylviasearcher

            I have never heard cold play and spice used in the same sentence lol.

            I wrote it in a little disjointed way, so maybe that’s what Brville sensed.

            It was an awesome dream though!

            Thanks for reading 😊



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