Writing It Down

For the life of me I will never understand how a thought or an idea can be in my head one moment and gone in the next. Dreams I understand. You are in a different part of your mind when you are dreaming so when you reenter the living, breathing world, it is only right that you leave the dreamland behind.

In my dreams I am hunted. Not every night any longer, but some nights still. Some nights I scream and cry in my sleep. Some nights I think I may not wake up because of the horrible things that have happened to me in my dreams that do not seem like dreams.

Lucky for me those dreams were never real live nightmares. Unlucky is the fact that I can think of a great story idea and write the entire thing in my head but then moments later I no longer remember the whole story and am unable to write it down.

I've written you a poem,
a poem you'll surely like
it's about the cruelties
of your dream world
and of your real life.
In real life you're not popular
no one knows your name
in dreams you are hunted
and always take the blame.
in the real world you are taunted
in dreamland you are stabbed
in the real world you are tripped
in the dreamland you are grabbed
in both worlds you are mistaken
if you think that it will end
in both worlds you are mistaken
if you think you can defend.
If both worlds are so different?
then why can't you say goodnight?
If both worlds are so different...
why do you fear the light?
They say a dream is a dream
and in your real life you can escape
if this is so true,
then what do you do
when you feel the pain still
after you wake.

T. Markin 3/18/10

It rolls off the tongue like swear words to a sailor. I can write poems, but stories seem to be a bit more of a problem for me. I'm going to do it though. I'm going to find a way to write the book I've been trying to finish for the past couple of years. Some how i will find the right idea and hold tight to it and run with it like a kite taking flight in the wind. This is my time.. I need to shine... "I thought I told ya, Imma Star, you see this ice.. you see the cars.. flashing lights everywhere we are...everywhere we are." - Jeremih