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2/19/2025 for Dreamer and the dreamed Poetry Contest sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

Dreamer and the Dreamed

Once,
a boy heard a fairy tale.
He repeated the story 
until he became the story
and forgot that it was "make believe".
Soon, it became reality, and not a dream.
The world echoed his tale.
He became a man,
and new chapters were written, with plot twists.
He was so busy moving the plot along, he could see or hear nothing else.
One day, resting before a large body of water,
he was quiet, and it felt like a dream.
He saw a small shoot break through a granite boulder.
He heard a single drop fall on the still pond,
and wondered
if this shoot,
and this drop
could be messengers
of a new reality.
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