I dreamed

  

 

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I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,
I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.

I dreamed–and this dream was the finest–
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.


—Clive Barker 
Days of Magic, Nights of War 

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And I asked myself about the present: 

how wide it was, how deep it was,

how much was mine to keep.

—Kurt Vonnegut 

Slaughterhouse-Five

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