Little Inklings 2025

DREAMS By Yahvi Raj ’31 I feel the rain trickling down my fingertips Reflecting the world around it Waking me up frommy sleep A soft pitter patter, and then a powerful boom It’s the type of heavy that weighs me down Commanding respect that it would never get Because no ever gave it So why should I? So I close my eyes Because things are so much better in my dream Sunshine blares at my head Hot, fiery light Forcing me to look Forcing me to open my eyes to truth But I don’t like what I see And why do I need to? I can just close my eyes Things are so much better in my dream Wind thunders around my room this time The pressure forcing me to listen to its whispers Telling me I can’t keep on hiding from reality Telling me I have to face it But I don’t I never do So I plug my ears and let my imagination take me back to safety Back to my dream Where it’s so much better The Earth wakes me up this time It rumbles beneath my feet, tearing down my walls Leading me to polluted sidewalks To wilting flowers To screaming people To reality A nightmare I yell at it Kick at it Thrash at it But it doesn’t go away It forces me to look beyond my closed eyes But I don’t have to And so I close my eyes again and plug my ears And I’m back to my dream And it’s so much better Nothing wakes me up this time No wind or sun or rain or earth Just silence Dead silence And it bothers me somehow So I open my eyes And I find nothing 32