Dreams of You (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo

[Author’s Note: Based on a dream I had a couple of years ago.]

I met you deep in dreams last night

  a person who departed from reality

    when I was still too young to understand

         the voids that absences could create

              You used to embrace me a great deal

      that is one of the few things I remember

     and everything else used to seemed like

faded photos and audio tracks in my mind

Each day was a memory

     which slipped away

          little

            by

          little

  over the years

. . . until I feared you would disappear forever

So when I saw you there before me

    clear as a ray of dawn through window blinds

(deep in the sleepy corridors of my mind)

      I started to run long before your arms opened

        for an embrace soft as my memory ever knew

           My tears trickled as you whispered in my ear,

              “I am always with you, mija.”

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