This morning I woke from a nightmare
I was dreaming about a ghost who kept opening my door while I laid in bed
The creek of the door woke me within the dream
and I cautiously went to the door to see who had opened it
No one was there but a chill was in the air
Finally, after several times closing the door
I got up and began screaming at the empty sky
calling to the ghost and inviting him to a duel
a fight
to show himself or run away as the coward he died as
No sound or sign of him betrayed his secret location
I slammed the door closed
pushed the dead bolts at the top and bottom of the door into locked positions
and stomped my way back to bed
Then there came a loud banging on the door
satisfied he could no longer open my door
I laid in bed until I could no longer tolerate the banging
I sat up on the edge of my bed
then awoke to find myself sitting on the edge of my real life bed
and hearing a banging noise echoing in my apartment.
The radiators were banging
from the hot water rushing through them
to warm my apartment
and me
of the chill in the air

03/18/2003

Author's Note: What the dream was telling me is open to interpretation, but it is written exactly the way it happened. It might have had something to do with the start of the war.

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Posted on 10/10/2005
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