Is the line between dreams and wakefulness
the same line as that between
lies and truth ?
Do those who refuse to be awoken
simply prefer to live in their dream world
where their power knows only those bounds
they tie about themselves
and feel able to loosen as they choose?
It is said the more educated one is the easier
it is to believe conspiracy theories.
Sheer ignorance does allow a lie to fly.
But, worse, are those who choose
to remain ignorant of truth by staying asleep.
They decry being woke as if facing truth
is too painful, too uncomfortable, to know it.
Incongruence is unsettling as any scholar knows.
We search for meaning in everything.
We want the pieces to fit in the puzzles we work.
When the pieces do not fit, we become angry
and blame the puzzle pieces and take satisfaction
in wiping them off the table.
Perhaps, if we could be brave enough to truly see,
the truth could set us free to choose pieces of reality
as it is when we are woke, not when we dream
of being more than we really are.
The truth is we are not perfect but we are enough.
Who told us we were not enough matters not.
Parents, wives, children, bosses ?
Conditional love leaves us bereft enough
to prefer the dream to such reality.
But, we are so much more than dreams.
if only we could realize we are loved, unconditionally.
Realize means living real lives.
And so I wake you from your dream
of superior being and dreamer of lies
to say I love you, just as you are.
Stay awake with me. There is work to be done.
A lot has piled up since you closed your eyes to truth.
I need you by my side to work within reality,
not with false pride; but, with opened eyes.
“You shall know the truth
and the truth shall set you free.”
And I shall love you through eternity.
annarino writes 