Goddamnit, I feel like I keep waking up from a dream and each time I’m still in college. What is happening to me in my life? I wonder. I look at the black and white division of my adolescence. It brings back memories of half painted walls, and their ironic nature, to be only half painted, half completed, always solidly locked into place. I was so pure, so pure, so divided from life, from death. The only thing that saved me was my humanity. As separate as I felt from life, I could not ever fully disengage from reality, it always clung to me like a heavy school backpack or hung over my head like the next day’s assignment. Just this casual backward stroll through memory lane makes me feel uneasy. Now I wake up into the dream. My villain has been replaced by an angel, my love of nervous thoughts with nervous thoughts of love. Just as a miracle can happen to anyone, a miraculous thing happened to me, transforming my material corporal being into an active body. The breath of passion I so often exhaled was finally breathed back into me. Trust and love, flutter, fall. The separation, the distraction. My return, my lack of faith. My promise, my committed decision. The chapters then fly by faster and faster. I still know my old master, but I cast off the spell caster, now that I face new disasters. Love is my master, and I remember the days I played my Stratocaster. Days with Frances and plaster. Faster and faster they fly by. Ali dancing with me in the night. Up on the stone benches in front of mom’s café. Sara and her smiling way, now I know why she didn’t dance with me that night. Not because I was bad but because I was good, and good is bad to those who have promised to do what they should. That my feelings now are what I want and not what I get somehow. Deep down, deep down I feel all around. I feel my heart and my head goes down. Nothing is found. Stop, dance, light up, speed, indeed, what have I made, but a place to get laid? Won’t my dreams ever fade? Why can’t my mind just sit in the shade, but now, it must always be played with, stayed with, running forward and back or tripped up and turned off, never mindful of rest, never taking breaks from the test. Read text. Speak next. Muscles flex. Shut out love from our sex.