Echo In My Dream

The voice that returns my scream strangely haunts me Among the tall pines that stand straight guarding the mountains I see It now sounds somehow familiar as I listen to it shatter the silence of the morning As the echo brings my scream back to find me before the sun has finished rising Beauty draws me deeper into an unknown vastness alone Realizing now I no longer know which way is home I frantically cry out hello can any body hear me, hear me, hear me My cry playing back to me with an eerie melody Confused and scared I sit upon a rock and submit to my fate Observing here all things live in harmony finding no reason one another to hate Somewhat peaceful and quiet now consumed by the magic of this place The leaves dance and whirl across the forest floor as if each other to race As my mind separates that which is real from the image in my dream My ears fill once more with the sound of that terrible haunting scream With sweat on my brow and my heart pounding with every beat The echo reaches that place where dreams and reality meet Upon awakening I find myself safely at home The echo in my dream having claimed forever this night alone ©Donna Jones