“To dream a dream within a dream”

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox

To dream a dream within a dream

Some of them simmering

Some secretive within the theme

I wake up shivering

Trickle the mind and all senses

Shadows of the past pretenses

Trickle the mind

Trickle the mind

Some habits of our defenses

To dream a dream within a dream

Roots of them I don’t know

And sometimes falling in a stream

Salty dreams in a flow

Eyes brimmed with tears, stones to pick

Sometimes dreams give my mind a trick

Eyes brimmed with tears

Eyes brimmed with tears

Like hitting my head with a brick

To dream a dream within a dream

Traffic within the mind

Some vast stories in a meme

Happily intertwined

Secrets to hide, guilty or not

Some funny and some like a plot

Secrets to hide

Secrets to hide

One day I’ll be able to jot*

(c) ladyleemanila 2024

*The Trijan Refrain

For: https://rochellewisoff.com/2024/05/08/10-may-2024/, https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/inspirational-writing-prompts-on-dreams/, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2024/04/28/wordle-652/, https://estherchilton.co.uk/2024/05/08/writing-prompts-13/