Somnial

Dear Lucas,

Nowadays, I have no choice but to feed my life with my memories of you embedded in the past, because the present will never have captive memories of you, the future will not bring them to me today, tomorrow; or ever, and if it could bring them to me; it will still be too late.  All of this happens in my dreamery.

I dream of dreams every day.  I dream of dreams of you and of what of those dreams could have been a reality.  The most shocking thing Lucas, is that my dreams are so oneiric compared to the reality that you were.  But that is the fate of dreams: be intangible and insubstantial, be indefinable and impalpable; and condemned to live forever reclusive in our vast imagination.  There, in my dreamery; they are real, so I travel there every day to live my dreams with you.  Oh, Lucas!  I miss you so very much!

My dreams are as crazy as they are passionate, perhaps outlandish, bizarre, and very eccentric, but these dreams are my dreams with you, and not of you.  I invent these wild dreams with you in an intangible place, in a far away universe, perhaps in the place where you are now.  People might laugh about my dreams with you and laugh of me because I am just a senile spirit with a demential imagination; but, what do they know?  I do not resent their laughs because I am glad they are not in a place like I am now: Floating in a sad void without your presence.

I will tell you my demential dreams.  You know Lucas that I was crazy by birth, and fortunately; I have not changed a bit.  I learned this from you Lucas when you told me once: I am as I am, and in no other way.  So I follow your lead.

I dream that we are tamers of guardian lions, hunters of underground dark moments, farmers of wild dreams, potters of solid truths, carpenters of foolishness, forgers of cursed chains, creators of furious crocodile cascades, and crucibles of fantastic happiness.  And you and I gallop these dreams between laughter and truths; and your pristine laugh echoes in the Universe.

And then I leave my dreamery.  I do not know how long I was there but it is not important because now my spirit is patched up, and my tears joined the starts of the cosmos.  I did not cry, but my chicks are wet, I was cold, but now my heart is warm, and the world does not look gray today.  When it starts to look ashen, sunless, and stale, I will refuge myself in my dreamery again, and we will travel to sidereal spaces on the back of yellow dragons.

I love you Lucas.  I miss you. Son.


Your Dad.