The serpent alerted me
boa sized terror disrupting sleep
I tried to push it back
but the beast insisted
“Keep driving forward, woman
I am at your side”
It came again
infiltrating my slumber
with a wide mouthed warning –
“I could consume you,
you better be ready”
Of course, I looked away.
It was a tiger next,
whose force, unmistakeable
sat upon my legs
rendering me inert
“You will pay attention”
he warned. No argument there
But how am to decipher
these nightly messages
the power of such beings
infiltrating my waking moments
am I going mad?
It would be the wolf
whose presence caught me
mid-flight, awake while dreaming
that startled me the most
“No time”, he said, “the moment is now”
And I awoke with a shudder
heart drumming an anxious tempo
and that’s when the letter arrived
telling me that we were finished
flesh of my flesh
no longer forgiving
and then the dog died
and I know that things come in threes
and the threads of my heart
barely holding on
can’t handle anything else
and my mind burns with questions
If only I’d paid attention
when that first snake appeared.
(Inspired by dreams. My art)
One Woman's Quest 