Dreaming Awake
Holding hands
Walking along the water
Sand squishing between our toes
Tide, slowly coming up
Brushing our feet
Cool, calming
My stomach
Is full of anxious
Butterflies, like springtime
My head not knowing
What to think
Craziness
Love
Filling the air
Surrounding us
Surrounding the world
And everyone who
Breathes
We sit down
He leans in slowly
But then all of the sudden
He stops moving
My eyelids
Flutter
And
Then all
I see is blackness
Slowly my eyes open
And I see out
The window
In his apartment
What happened???
Did that really happen?
I have to wake him
Had to have been
A dream
I shake him
His eyes open slowly
"Hello..." he says quietly
I look at him carefully
Then he speaks
In a whisper
"Did you have
Fun at the beach last night?"
Then he sits and stares at me
WAIT IT WASN'T A DREAM?!!!
I'd feel stupid asking him
So I keep quiet
Then I realize
He is waiting for an answer
So I suck in a deep deep breath
"Wasn't that a dream?" I whisper keeping my eyes on him
He laughs, "Well it might've been, I mean
It seemed a little to good to be true."
I think for a moment
"Well what happened then?
I guess I woke up before my happy ending..."
He laughs, so deeply and richly
"Well it was a happy ending...
Wasn't it..."
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Jen H. | Year Posted 2009
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