In my dream I am bound, and can not move…there is water, I am on a shallow bank with a brook or stream gurgling below…my feet are tied just above my ankles and rest just under the water…it’s cold – I feel cold.  My hands are behind me – I am on my side and the sun is in my eyes…I am afraid and mad, and not sure how I got into this mess – this situation.  I am close to tears…more from frustration, and then from behind me a presence…at first far but then coming closer…I go still and stop breathing on purpose.  I listen…try to understand my quandary and will my self to some other place – my hands wrestle against their restraints, and I slip further into the water.  The presence moves closer…I can tell it’s coming faster and faster now with purpose – it wants me – I gasp for air and I can feel panic well up inside me.  My face sinks into the dirt of the bank as my movement sends me deeper in to the chilling water…I taste the grit and soil – it gets in to my eyes…my body spasms to be free. My cold hands sense warmth and begin to go numb as the fetters cut deep in to my skin and  I bleed…I am afraid to look or turn my body toward whatever thing is coming for me – now confirmed by foot falls that resonate through the earth to my body.  I’ve lost track of the feeling and control of my feet and hands…cold water reaches my mid section and sends me screaming.  I can feel my soul battle desperately to escape  its mortal tethers…to abandon consciousness and physical limitations and flee – to be free – and I rage to make it so until I am done.  Exhausted I relinquish my struggle and acquiesce to this fate and in my last act of defiance I turn to meet my assassin.  Its cold eyes pierce through me first…then nothing else registers as its long teeth come down over me…I chose darkness and close my eyes…damn Dragons, ha.

Photo by Lawrence Lewis (2012)

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Lawrence Lewis

“We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” – Tom Robbins


About Lawrence Lewis

I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂