GRIEF Poem: “living nightmare”, by Lydia Trail

you came to me in a dream last night
like you had never left.
i knew the instant i saw you.
i held you tightly in my arms,
taking in everything about you.
not as if you had slipped from my memory
but because it had been so long
since the image i had of you
was one with you living and breathing.
and suddenly i forgot i was dreaming–
you and i were together like old times.
the past had been rewritten
to form the reality i once wished for.
in an instant my eyes opened,
greeted by rays of light and silence–
the morning mocked me with its likeness
to the day you took your last breath.
and i stayed there, just as i did before,
knowing that every day after,
i would awaken to a life without you.

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