A Freedom Everyone Needs

Inside a dream, I felt the world collapsing around me—

almost as if it was never there in the first place.

I tossed and turned, fighting my way through the darkened sea,

as it surrounded me, closing in on my personal space.

The emptiness I felt—the loneliness—was all I could see,

though I saw more than just a collapsing dream.

I saw many, many memories swirling around in my thoughts—

thoughts I imagined were already long since dead,

and ones that I realize have not happened yet—

memories and thoughts of all potential realities:

different endings, and many more beginnings,

all colliding to form a sort of singularity.

No words can express what I, myself, had seen,

though from what I remember, it was rather amazing—

a chaotic dream collapsing all around me,

and somehow such a collapse had brought new meaning

to the life that I live, where now I feel free.

And that is a freedom I feel everyone needs.