UNSETTLING

The event occurred on a day like many other days. The sky was dark, but the air was calm. I was agitated. I don’t know why I was agitated. I started thinking and it occurred to me it was from a dream I had two nights ago that was now coming back to haunt me.

This is unusual since most of my dreams are upbeat. This dream was definitely accompanied by the rumble of a timpani drum. The clashing of symbols! The strident shrill of an out of tune clarinet. It was like the scraping of chalk on a black board.

But what did it symbolize? Mental confusion? Guilt?

I simply do not know. Maybe ,just maybe that dream will reveal itself to me one day.

Wayne Lazarus