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(Dream) My childhood nightmare about lightning…

by Aaron Howard

I’m at my pre-school at around age 6 or 7, The place is aptly named ‘Happy Days’… It’s recess time, and we’re all playing out in the recess yard.. It’s your typical play school yard. If you were looking out the back door of the classroom, Sandbox in the middle, slide and swings over by the left side by the fence.. Tables over on the right side of the fences, and three big bushes. One bush right by the classroom door on the right side, One at the front left corner of the sandbox and finally, One in the back left corner of the playground. It had rained the night before so there are mud puddles scattered all over the yard, one big one between the two playground bushes.
We’re playing hide and seek when it starts to lightning… Most of the kids run inside as the rain begins to fall in sheets, but I’m hiding behind the bushes in the back of of the yard and my other friends are calling game off.. but telling me to run none the less as we have to go back inside… I decide to run and jump over the big puddle in the middle of the yard… I dash from behind the bush and approach the mini lake and leap… just in midair, a huge hand of lightning comes down from the sky and snatches me in mid jump.. The grip isn’t painfully tight or even hurts.. but the hand starts pulling me into the air, My friends scream with me as I am slowly pulled up into the sky…and then I’d awake…

09/22/2003

Author's Note: I had this dream alot as a young child, It haunted me for a while and ended up making me scared of lightning storms for about 5 years...

Posted on 09/22/2003
Copyright © 2024 Aaron Howard

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Marjorie Anne Reagan on 12/05/03 at 06:21 PM

I had this same dream throughout my teen years. Starting around eight I was always getting struck by lightning but in different scenes. Must be something that happens to great writers.:-)

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