Slipping into Madness

D-2: In Your Dreams

You discover you are nothing more than a figment of another person’s dream! What is this dream about and how did you get there in the first place? (Short story <1000 words or poetry < 31 lines)

I fell awake
with fireworks and flames
a flash of memory at my dream's edge,

and my back ached
as though I danced yesterday on dragon wings
(or I slept wrong? who could tell?)
across a starlit sky,

and my fingers felt clumsy
and heavy, and impossibly wrong--
as though my eyes were still closed
and all my waking toils--
my work and aches
and troubles
were nothing at all.

a dragon's nightmares--
the last dying embers of fancy
dreamt by someone
whose existence is so much
brighter, sharper, stronger,
than my flimsy echo of a life.

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