Dreams

Dreaming...

I was dreaming...
Perhaps it may have been
but a long forgotten memory...

A dream...
A memory...

Things remembered when one is asleep...
Things forgotten when one is awake...

Where the deepest layers of our memory
become the outermost layers of one's dreams...

Which are reality?
Which are illusions?
One cannot tell unless one awakes...

Or perhaps they are,
at the same time,
both truth and fiction...

A vast nebulous with no bounderies...
An emptiness equivalent of my own existence...

I dreamt such a dream...

A long...
Never-ending...
Dream...

Dreams...

A life of a man...
And the lives of countless other men...
All but dreams...

Now that I am awake, those countless numbers of long,
heart-ending dreams are almost impossible to remember at all...

In those dreams, I loved one woman...
No matter the day, no matter the era...
That did not change...
Nor did her name...

That dream changed me...
That dream was the catalyst for me to resolve what my purpose was.
I think I know now...
What I have to do...
That long, long memory of a dream...
Perhaps it was the memory of my soul...


A dream...

I was dreaming a dream...
Or perhaps it was a memory...
From a distant past...

A dream...
A memory...

Those words I was unable to convey...
That day...
That time...

Those thoughts I was unable to carry out...

Words and thoughts...
The connection between the two...
Without words, thoughts cannot be conveyed...
Without thoughts,there are no words...
They are both as vital as each other...

They can never be divided...
Like the wings of angels...
Like a man, and a woman...

An unchangeable destiny...
Feelings and wishes one could change...
Meeting without the person who would change me...
and watching myself change...

I dreamt such a dream...

A long...
Never-ending...
Dream...

Dreams...

A life of a woman...
And the lives of countless other women...
All but dreams...

Now that I am awake, those countless numbers of long,
heart-ending dreams are almost impossible to remember at all...

In those dreams, I loved one man...
No matter the day, no matter the era...
That did not change...
Only his name...

That dream changed me...
That dream was the catalyst for me to resolve what my purpose was.
I think I know now...
What I have to do...
That long, long memory of a dream...
That perhaps was the memory of my soul...

(An adaptation from Squaresoft's Xenogears)