My Dream

Last night I had a dream I was standing under a painted sky.

With my sister standing beside me.

I looked up at the sky and said, “Sister you know, it’s been a long road we’ve been walking on.”

She said, “Brother I know, it’s such a long road we’ve been walking on.”

I said, “You know my heart’s been broken now. I am weary.”

And she said, “You’re too strong to carry it on.”

And I said, “My mind is too strong to forget.”

And she said, “Love hurts, because love is real.”

We watched in quiet as the clouds drifted through the sky.

And then I pinched her.

She cried out and said, “Why did you do that?”

And I said, “Because you’re real.”

And we stood there. Just standing.