Can I use an old word?
I often dream of situations I’ve never experienced and
probably would never know-how in my life but they keep recapping and to my
inner scruples they try to discover a meaning for themselves. Why do I keep
dreaming of a multi-tiered oil lamp, flowers, incense sticks, a conch shell and
an unfamiliar girl running on the temple above the rocks and she disappears
before I see her face. I could scent the sea, feel the wind and the sound of
waves hitting the rocks. Why do I end up remembering this every time I lose
myself to a different consciousness?
My boogie man with his long face painted green and sharp
facial features which made him striking, habitually performed in my dreams a
historic drama and whispered proverbs I’m most scared of. I don’t know how
exactly he knew what I was thinking that infuriated week or an irrational
evening. He often took me to bamboo groves where my accustomed cuckoos sang and
the music echoed with the rhythmic beats of the falling spring across the cave.
I remember the green water, the wooden wall with an unknown
wild creeper and the algae kissing cement steps to the pond. I remember the lovely
feet with silver anklets making an equally beautiful and bloodcurdling noise as
she walked and the half wet silk border of her long skirt clasping to her ideal
feet. I remember her walking to the petrifying backyard behind the jack fruit
grove and peeping through the broken bricks to catch a glimpse of the boy
across the pond who counted stars with her every night.
I cannot find a new word to explain my search of an
authentic being brought by a savage poison. The lust for a lost beginning…Can I
use an old word? My urkraft!
Hey old chap! Wait!