It does not matter if you had a good or a bad night, waking up is always traumatic. Traveling from one world to another in a literal blink convulse our soul. The horrendous monster is running after us, the darkness wraps us while we feel its cold claw on our shoulder. It is our time… It was wonderful to live; however we do not have time to remember the sunny days lying on the grass inventing figures out of white and soft clouds. We are only feeling the cold sweat soaking our heart which incessantly pumps glacial blood to our body. Of course, we want to scream but we cannot. There is no voice in lungs and throats that can barely breathe. There is no hope tonight, in this emptiness reigned by fear. It is our last chance, we have the certainty that we will be death the next second, therefore, in this, our last one, we want to shout out, rather as an evidence of an abominable act than as our last resource to save our lives. The scream dies within us. An impotence feeling overwhelm us, and we die in exacerbated anguish. Yet, we are still alive; our irregular breathing makes us open our eyes. We are sited in a dark room but we made it. We open the blind and the sunlight dazzles our eyes as we had never used them before. It was just a dream, a bad dream.
That sportive red car is ours. We do not care about the enormous house, in fron of which, it is parked. We know it is ours too. We just want to drive across this marvelous landscape, below this warm sun. In the horizon the sea goes far beyond our sight. The sparrows sing an arrhythmic melody. The salt and flowers scent is mixed in the air.
We are driving to meet someone. We do not know who is it, however we know that we want to be with this person forever. We have been waiting for this person our whole life. This is the first day of a perfect existence. There is no option, we turn on the radio and we start singing. The song is perfect: I feeeeeel gooood! I know if I wouldn’t….Only Chuck Brown and we can sing it right.
The person is there, sited on a bench in the small square filled up with green trees and chipmunks that stand before all peasants asking for food with their onyx eyes. The sunlight is filtered by the branches and infinite pieces of luminescence and shadows cover the road.
We are so happy, we walk forward with confidence, an immense joy is just a few steps away.
Where are we? The darkness was not there an instant before. We feel tired, the sheets are heavy. The song of our cell phone woke us up and the television turns on automatically: Another 1000 corpses were found in Angola, markets are 5% down again, gasoline price has increased another couple of dollars. Life is difficult and we need to face it awake. The dream is over.
Read each other tomorrow!