Our Dreams Within Our Dreams Poem by Avik Datta Gupta

I had a dream
And in my dream I dreamt of you
Dreaming about me
And as I dreamt
We dreamed together
Thinking of one another
Hoping that dreams would come true
As our spiteful words did misconstrue
From a garbled toxic conscious mind
Devoid of dreams

The dreams of subconscious minds
Could never be unkind
Unlike our selfish selves
Where we hurt one another
Battered feelings never matter...
Or do they? ...
Etch with venom in our ossified minds
And leaving a scar in our hearts
That explodes bleeds and splatter
On being hammered by a nail of spite
And what remains of us
Are our battered and tattered pieces
Getting carried in a chariot
Drawn by steeds of ego

Yet we dream on and we love
Our love for a dream
And our dream for love
As now, you have a dream
And in that dream,
You dreamt of me
Dreaming about you