Trapped Within A Dream You lie in clouds of sunset, Mist floats gently through your hair You close your eyes Relaxing Relaxing finally. You turn your head Your eyes are open again, You don’t know how. You see them, They turn to you and smile. A crash. Thunder, lighting, Shattering the perfect sky, Mirrored in the uneven glass of the lake. You fall. Darker, Darker the world turns Rushing up to meet you Panic in your gaze, You try to scream No sound comes out. Impact Or at least what was supposed to be Yet no jarring sensation touches you No searing pain. You’re floating again, Floating on the night itself, Stars weave through your hair. You turn again, They’re next to you, smiling, You smile back. This time, This time you won’t fall in love. You’re floating above this strange world, Red soil, Grey trees. Lakes, not reflecting the stars you float amongst, Reflecting you. But not you, you notice, You’re covered in blood and scars, Not the real you, The other you, The one reflected back. The other you waves. You don’t wave back. You’re stuck there, you notice, You can’t climb down from the stars, You try. No mystical ladder appears. You begin to slip down, Slowly, slowly, And then you fall. You hit the lake. Water splashes everywhere But you don’t notice, You’re trying to swim to the surface. You can’t get out. The surface is like glass. You hit it, But it hits you back. Your face is bruised and bloody, But you try again Over and over. You see yourself, floating in the clouds, The other you sees you, You wave. The other you doesn’t wave back. The other you begins to fall. Slowly at first, Then quickly. Faster and faster the other you falls, Hitting the glassy water with a great thud Water splashes everywhere, But you don’t care. You’re already swimming to the surface. You burst out, Climb onto the glass, More glass slowly covers where the other you fell, And you walk away, Leaving yourself trapped, Trapped in a world within a dream.