Secrets of Slumberbash

Teddy.15

   

So, I can tell you 

my recurring dreams 

are extremely vivid 

sometimes, I even wake 

feeling as though 

I'd never been asleep at all

and in my dreams 

I visit the streets of London 

where it seems 

I'm searching, searching

for him  

searching for that one face

the one of my soulmate, no less

the one I've never even met 

in full consciousness 

the most extraordinary thing is

in my dreams

I can actually feel emotion

can you feel emotion in yours?

I can literally cry tears upon my pillow

I can laugh loud 

I can feel my ever expanding smile

and I can also feel grief 

did you know, sometimes 

I can even see my Angel?

but this one particular dream

always ends the same

I never do find him 

I never get to touch his beautiful face 

or feel safe in his arms 

yet, I feel his presence 

I can feel him all around me

whether I'm awake or asleep 

serenity surrounds my soul

If you'll pardon my dramatics?

nevertheless 

on awakening each morn

there is always an aching

of something missing

but I just get on 

with my day 

regardless

 

because that is just what one does...

well, isn't it?

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Comments6

  • Qurrathul Ain

    So relatable. For some reasons, it spoke to my heart. Thank you for sharing!

    • Teddy.15

      Thank you so much, if my writing speaks to your heart then it truly makes me incredibly humbled and honoured to have shared it. Thank you so much. 🌹

    • Accidental Poet

      BRAVA POETESS! 🌹😀👍
      Oh, what I wouldn't do to see, touch and embrace my soulmate. So very beautiful a write today Teddy. I love it. 🌹

      • Teddy.15

        Thank you so much dear A.P I can feel the love my dear friend. 🌹

        • Accidental Poet

          🫂

        • Thomas W Case

          Tremendous. I relate totally. I awake heart sick sometimes. Powerful writing, dear Teddy.

          • Teddy.15

            Dearest Thomas, thank you so very much. 🌹

          • sorenbarrett

            Dreams are most intriguing whether natural or metaphoric. Yes I emote in my dreams and have experience time distortion and lucid dreaming. Here in this poem it seems a search for an archetype a soulmate may I be so bold as to say God that is omnipresent, I have never found him either
            "but I just get on
            with my day
            regardless
            because that is just what one does...
            well, isn't it?"
            So nicely finished.

            • Teddy.15

              My dear sorrenbarret, I absolutely love your take on my poem, I can assure you as the author, it is in no way about any god, although I love the idea that the reader feels his own omnipresent so to speak. I married a physicist who is also religion free, I truly appreciate your truly wonderful review. Thank you. 🌹

              • sorenbarrett

                I use the word quite loosely to me god is nature but some psychological theories talk of god being that mental form of a father/mother figure in unconscious form that as mental children we search for and find omnipresent and omniscient. No I did not mean it in the traditional form.

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              • Doggerel Dave

                I too have a recurring dream or rather the setting for a series of dreams, which I don’t intend to relate ‘cos there’s too many of them…. But the setting is an expansive never-ending building – a cross between a large hotel and an ocean liner (sort of) with all those doors……. Fun.
                You stirred my imagination Teddy, and I shall hold you responsible if you have managed to evict me from my very comfortable environment.😄
                PS: Your picture….Sigh…..

                • Teddy.15

                  lol I'm evicting you personally, now get your darling muse to write something about your own slumberbashings. How truly wonderful dear Dave, todays picture ......sigh..... You and I and our beloved London. 💙

                  • Doggerel Dave

                    Have written, Teddy - and that's as far as I'm going. I still, believe it or not , believe in a certain degree of privacy... Besides, PRESENT COMPANY EXCEPTED, I've drifted, almost lost the will to live listening to oldies recounting their complicated dreams as an alternative to talking about their operation...... LOL with a tiny dash of irritation.....😄

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                  • Cassie58

                    Dear Teddy. Many is the time I have woken up crying from dreams. Yes, I dream in colour and feel the emotions too. Your words are truly relatable. As to that feeling of emptiness, part of the human condition. I do believe we all experience it at times in our lives. Love your posted image. My birth city. Etched in my heart. Have a beautiful weekend dear poet. 🌹

                    • Teddy.15

                      Thank you dear Cassie, so lovely to read your beautiful review. 🌹



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