Waking Up From The Dream

What if this is all just a dream?

What if we are all still asleep?

Waiting in line until our hearts stop to beat

We open our eyes when us & eternity meet

As the hourglass runs out of sand

Minutes turn to hours

Days to months

Then years are gone.

The alarm clock sounding destiny’s song

Fleeting moments,

Things that aren’t meant to last

Our known reality has come and past

Whenever we awake, no longer asleep

Reflections of what was, of the dream we create

Sleeping with the breath of life

Awakening to the face of death

A short night becomes an endless morning

What if it was all just a dream

Accept the fact of our insignificance

None of us matter,

Yet we are all equally important

The odds of us being here are dismal

Our remote existence is incomprehensible

Functionally zero

Fragments of the dream, pass by in a flash

Pedal to the floor asleep at the wheel

This dream will be another’s memory

Waking up to realize you missed it

Feeling it all start to slip

Trying to peak through the veil

There’s only one guarantee in life

To wake up…eventually we all will

Like counting back from 10

Gone so fast

It seems to have ended before it ever began

Yet it felt like forever

The snap of a finger

In the blink of an eye

What if this all just a dream

And we wake up when we die

Are you ok?

Are you fine?

Don’t forget

You’re still standing in line

Often none of this feels real

Like it’s all just a dream

Trying to remember what I came here for

And what I did before

The last time I was asleep

Maybe it’s all nothing

And there is no before or after

Maybe it’s all a dream

And nothing actually matters

So why do we do it all

When it seems there is no point

Asleep for our whole life

Just to be exhausted at the end

Your slip has a number on it

Just like mine

As we stand here waiting

To move forward in the line

Waiting to wake up

As this life ends

Opening the curtains

To find out if it was a dream the whole time