Am I Awake?

Am I awake?
Is this all a dream?
The things running around inside
my head.
Making me want to scream.
Where is reality?
Is it a story told to those who
can't dream?
Where is my mind taking me?
Lost on some journey in a world
so strange.
Rambling nothing out
but incomprehensible things.
Where are you going?
Where is this place?
Still not sure if I'm awake.
I stand there above myself
while I sleep,
then reaching down to shake
myself awake.
As things come undone and
who I thought was me
were nothing but shadow
and light playing tricks
on me.
Awake! Awake!
Trying to make everything go
away.
I realize myself running
in the streets.
This cannot be?
I am awake.


March31/04