The Dream
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It is 1:23 a.m. and you wake up with damp sweat hugging your young back
Your eyes are stinging just as leaves would be if the air was filled with pesticides
It's obvious you're exhausted but your mind wont rest a second
Just as a soldier in the middle of a fight
It's happening again
Your dreams are keeping you up at night
I'm not talking about the dreams filled with random characters or subconscious thoughts
I'm talking about the dreams you want more than life itself
The dreams that stick to the side of your brain like gum under a desk
The dreams that make you ask yourself
The dreams sometimes make you doubt yourself
The dreams that overtake your mind and engulf your thinking process like a cobra swallowing its prey
But in reality it's not the dreams that keep you up
It's the fear of not accomplishing them
It’s the fear of not knowing and the fear of not controlling
The reason why we are so afraid of not accomplishing our dreams
is because they are all we have ever known
All we have ever breathed since we were young
And letting those precious dreams slip through our fingers without trying to grasp them
Is like cutting out our heart and saying that we can live only with our lungs.