Once

I dreamt once that I was alive
Within this dream of ours
That I didn't know or understand what was around me
That I didn't know what was before me
Or behind me
Or above me
Or below me
I dreamt that I was a boy
Running toward the sun
I woke in this dream and stood still for a while
So that I could see what was happening
And as I turned to speak to those beside me
I noticed that they couldn't see me
That they were looking at something
And it was moving
And it was life
In all its glory
in all its roaring rushing frantic beauty

As I watched this go on around me it came to my attention that I was
alone
That I was looking at something no-one else could see
Because it was mine
As it is yours
This life
And like an echo it returned to me
Filtered and flickering

I was at once surrounded by ghosts
Simply standing next to experience
In permutation of thought
In flux

For every thought you have a life is lived
For every dream is a piece of love you give