Another Dream

The sun sets below the Kansas Plains.

I forget where we are going, and don't remember why, but there is urgency in our trip.

We load our things into the back of a rusty red Geo, and I take the passenger seat.

I don't know who you are, but I know you have told me something important, and even though I have never met you, I trust what you say.

You stand over six feet tall, and your skin is the color of rich chocolate. Your brown eyes say more than your mouth can speak.

We drive and drive, mostly in silence. After a couple hours you pull off the main highway and we travel down a dirt road shrouded in darkness. I am tense. I wonder if I should have trusted you.

Then it all comes back to me.You told me that things here where no longer safe, and that the only way to be saved was to go with you. I asked you why you would bother with me, why you cared about me, and how you even found me. You stated that only those who are listening can hear your voice calling out. I don't know if I should believe. Everything seems so wrong, but as I look at you it seems completely right.

We stop and the headlights show a field of towering wheat. you turn off the car and look at me.

"Are you ready to embark on the final journey of life?"

I agree without even thinking about it. It is now too late to turn back, if this is death it is my destiny.

We emerge from the car, and you motion to the back where you hand me my bag and take yours. Grabbing my hand we start into the field. I hold my breath and hope that this will not be the end of me.

For hours we wander in itchy, bug infested wheat. I give up asking when we will get there and stare into the darkness above.

A blue light shines off in the distance and my legs are heavy as lead. I feel my heart trying to escape me, and sweat drowns my face.

We head toward the light, the ground turns more uneven and rocky, and the air is cooler. We are running now.

We approach a clearing, it is filled with the light that we had saw from the distance, it dances like water across a wall in the night sky.

You look at me, eyes cold and piercing and ask me if this is really what I want to do.

I know in my heart that I do.

We sit together facing one another and you grab my hands.

Our eyes close and I can feel the earth speaking.

In an instant the ground disappears and we are falling. You tell me not to open my eyes. I obey.

Finally the sensation of falling ends, but it does not feel as if I have landed. You tell me to open my eyes.

I sit within a swirling aura of color. You welcome me to Oaris.

You let me take in my surroundings and I see you smiling. I ask what this is, and you explain that it is a place between time. Here nothing ages or changes.

I am confused.

As you start to explain I wake up.


Fucking waking up sucks when someone is about to explain something cool. :(