A Dream's Path

Have you ever dreamed a dream so deep you drowned down in its depths?

Swimming among a pool of stars as vast as the milky way.

And here with gentle delicacy you lay your head to sleep.

Drowning in a pool so deep dazzling as the stars.

Now you rise out of the pool you wander dazed and somewhat dizzy.

Into a field, you stumble your hooves fall heavy on the grass.

But slowly lifting your head to smell the breeze you run into a gallop across the rolling hills trampling through the grass and over all the bushes.

As you reach the hilltop you leap with cheerful glee your hooves make way for talons your fur falls out for feathers Your wings take you to the clouds.

There you fly up in the sky floating gently among the clouds

Your wings taking you to new heights up and up forever more till slowly you begin to fall as your feathers begin to slick back tight into your skin and your wings and feet all turn to fins.

And you begin to fall past the clouds till you crash into the sea.

The water ripples around you and you begin to swim forward through the calming sea.

Feel the water against your skin.

As your fins push against it moving you through.

And you swim until you reach the shore and begin to climb unto the sand slowly shrinking as the waves crash on the shallow shore.

Now your scurrying along the beach a tiny gray dot among the sand.

A pink tail drags behind you.

Suddenly you stop.

Sniff the air.

But it's too late.

You let out a shriek as something stomps on your tail

You try to scurry away but you can't

A snarling cat stands over you like a giant.

Its teeth are like knives and you picture each one driving into your skin piercing your flesh as the blood spills out.

And the cat looks at you eyes glowing in the night

And you close your eyes your tail stretching out behind you your paws growing in the sand.

You feel your muscles pulse with power as a flowing mane of fur grows around your head like the crown of a king.

And you stare the cat in the face your teeth held out in a snarl and you let out a roar into the night.

And you jump

Awake

Out of a nightly dream