A Box of Dreams

Grammy Writes

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In the sluggish haze before waking I notice a door
which I cautiously approach and find is open.
I pause but can’t resist crossing the threshold.
Ignoring the lump in my throat,
I toss apprehension aside and begin to explore.

I sense I may have already been here,
in another time, another space, another “me”.
Soon I realize this is where I
neatly folded my dreams and packed them away,
finding them easier to forget than to pursue.

I gather up all these hopes and lost ambitions
then tuck them, one by one, into a box once discarded
by the door. I think how fortunate it is that I stumbled
across them now, at this very moment,
when I need them the most.

I pass back through the door with my box of dreams,
a prized possession I clutch tightly to my chest.
A creak of the door tells me it has closed behind me.
A click of the lock suggests I’ll never be going back.
There is no need—I found my dreams! 

This poem “A Box of Dreams” is featured on vox poetica today.

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18 Comments

  5. Wonderful … especially the initial sense of having been there before … Next time that happens to me, I will for sure look around for a pile of something I needed to come back for! And hope there’s a box by the door to help me reclaim my “self”.

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