Dream Fight

It was a long drawn argument

But inside a dream

A humdinger-

Give no quarter type of slanging

angry toing and froing

wordy, urgent, but somehow incapable of escalation

As if it was wearing a governor-

Interesting how in a dream you can deftly act out both sides of the fight

With equal gusto

And have the words and thoughts

For all the people in the frame

Only one of whom is you

Or is that truly so?

Sometimes

Not even that-

There's No You-

No one looks like You

But you're there

In spirit

In the heads of others-

You

Put words in their mouths

Expressions

Stances

All that

It's like playing yourself in Chess

Animating both sides of the table

But not so cerebral

Because you're actually

Arguing-

Or getting others to do it by proxy

But only in your dream-

Waking up is realising

No harm done

It was

No consequence venting

In privacy,in silence, and the dark

Like a sharp thought

Expressed without witnesses

One that

Leaves you unscathed

Not very enlightened

But

Definitely feeling better.

Gautam Mukherjee

Copyright, Gautam Mukherjee 2012