Dreams

Dreams
By Naomi Rose Eldonez

Voices shake the silence
They echo in and out
Shapes and colors fly
before my sightless eyes.
Through my peripheral vision,
I can see a little girl walking
down a grand hall.
Someone is shouting at her to go no farther.
That vision diminishes and in it's place
a new one appears.

I am falling a long distance
Through the air.
I reach for something to grab,
but nothing meets my fingertips.
Out of the blue I am submerged under water.
People's wispy bodies swim past me.
I scream but nothing escapes
my gaping mouth,
but tainy bubbles floating to the unseen surface.
A strong hand grips my wrist
and pulls me up out of the watery prison.

My eyes, eager to see light,
Fly open, like little light bulbs flicking on.

Instead of a body of water...
I see my bedroom.