A Dream after Heart-Breaking Moment

Last night I observed an extraordinary dream

I had a rite of passage finishing a big exam of this life

My broken heart is no more wanting

I took the tram in the opposite direction and missed one stop

Finding myself basking in fresh air with mellifluous sunshine

glittering from the slope of snowy Swiss Alpine Mountains

on which a few of chalets perched

My lovely petite Switzerland, the very place

Where my heart was white, innocent and intact

I hear my senior aunt calling on noisy tourists to return to the tram

I was one left out in distance

A beam of golden sunlight flows down to the ground,

I gradually glimpsed back…

What a pleasant surprise!

A pair of white angel-like pigeons

Flying toward me through a bunch of mild milky sunshine

Tenderly and quietly perched on my shoulder

With pacifying and tender expression in their eyes

They were not fluttering away in fear of being caught or hurt

Instead, quietly watching me over and over with innocent and caring gaze

There was zero distance between us, so touching so intimate

All feelings are transmitted and felt in silence

It feels like passed-away grandma returns to the Earth in this medium

Or divine angels step down to comfort my painful heart being hurt so badly

I so much like to grab my camera to record the rare peaceful scene

But fear any movement would scare them away

I know the tram back to home stops at the opposite side of the street

But at current moment,

The unspeakable serenity stopped my steps

I sip the happiness and joy by

Surrendering the power of control to the Universe

For the first time in my life, I felt

The divinity embodied in silence of the Nature

Heart to Heart, like angels within us

Only warmth and love

No distance, no dust of the earth, no words

As if the birds had no bit of memory of being killed and chased after by man

Only if everything remains intact

At the beginning of each encounter

like the two white pigeons perching on my shoulder

As I watch them without being suspected

They keep perching on my shoulder solidly,

Getting closer to the side of my face, looking at me

Right at the time when I try to hold my camera to take a shot on them

Feet of pigeon began moved around and I felt its sharpness

I came to sudden realization that I was dreaming

I jumped to a different dimension of the Universe

In this dream

But why did it feel so real when I was in the dream?

Far more truthful than all my days on the Earth.

Author's Comment on this Love Poem: This is a lucid dream, simple but thought provoking! I wrote it down in the early morning, receiving the unexpected response from the Universe after a painful heartbreak in love. The terminal of pain, to my surprise, is completely counterintuitive. Maybe death is in the same vein. It also hides a much deeper truth in the love poem that we are merely dreaming in the realm of love.

Copyright Wei Chen 2017