Copy Link
Add to Bookmark
Report
Another Night and Day Alliance 105
.
. a n a d a 1 0 5 0 7 - 2 1 - 0 0
.
. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . "Today Reality Is Our Enemy
. . . . . . . . . . (Just Like Yesterday)"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Mental Kompass
. . w w w . a n a d a . n e t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I can see the trees from here. I can smell the flowers on the
ground. I'm standing in a large grassfield all by myself. This place is
beautiful, I think to myself, it's a truly beautiful place. Somewhere close
to me is an old barn, I can't see it but I know it's there. I know the
paint has started to fall off, the doors are long since gone and all that
remains inside are some old machinery parts. But right here is just me and
my blank mind. Even though my eyes are closed, I still see the trees far
away. This is freedom. This is life.
In the background there is a quiet sound. Or maybe not so quiet. I
hear it louder. I can't smell the flowers, all my brain can do is to feel
the sound. The FUCKING sound. I hate it. I hate every second of it.
Someone stop it. I feel myself slipping, slipping away, as if I had caught
my loved one falling down from a high ledge knowing I'm not strong enough to
hold her hand anymore and I have to watch her fall to a certain death.
That's how I feel. Now everything is black. I have been so busy thinking
about how much I hate the sound that I forgot to listen if it is still
there. So I listen, and it is still there. But I don't hate it anymore.
I'm just sick and tired of it and I know I can make it stop. Somewhere deep
down I know I am the only one that can make the sound stop.
My hand is moving, slowly, as I if this was the first time in my life
I tried to use it. But I can move it. Slowly. Now I know why everything
is black. It's because my eyes are closed. If I can move my hand maybe I
can open my eyes too. It's strange, I dont remember closing them. Just
doesn't make any sense. But I open them and I can see my hand -- among
other things. Like a table. And a bed. A bed? What is a bed doing here?
I don't need a bed for my grassfield. And a table? What the fuck is that
doing here? Something is wrong, terribly wrong. Nothing that I see here
would fit in my grassfield.
My body feels numb. My eyes feel tired, they want to stay closed but
they can't. I'm lying on something soft. That's the only thing that feels
good. I watch my hand moving, trying to reach for something. I don't know
what but I can feel I've done this a thousand times before. Maybe a
million. My hand stops moving and the sound stops sounding. It's over. I
did it.
With my eyes wide open I can look up and see a white ceiling. I
begin to sweat. I realize what has happened. The grassfields are gone.
The trees are gone. So is the barn and all the old machinery parts inside
it. The flowers and their smell is gone. I have left my dream and entered
another, a dream some people prefer to call "reality". And reality is a
nightmare. When there are so many good dreams to enter, why do I always end
up in reality, the worst dream of them all?
I'm officialy awake.
To survive in my grassfield-dream all I had to do was close my eyes
and be there. I didn't even have to breathe. If I wanted to I could smell
the flowers. But to stay alive in this dream I have to constantly stay
cynical and see all the terrible people that live in it and think of how
much I hate them.
It's not that I hate everyone. There are some smart people too.
Take music for example: smart people make stupid music which stupid people
spend their cash on that they earned on their stupid job which they only got
because their stupid boss is so stupid that even he listens to stupid music
even though he is way too old to like it.
That is just plain stupid.
One of the persons that I don't hate is myself. But that might just
be because I'm so stupid that I dont realize how stupid I am. But I'm
willing to admit that this is one of the subjects that I haven't given a lot
of thought, maybe because I'm afraid that I will realize that I am worth
hating.
That is what scares me.
Now that I'm awake I know something: reality can really suck.
Sometimes it does. I know it will today. It's too late to go back to my
other dream cause I lost all the grassfields when reality took control. Of
course, you can get out of reality too -- the quick way. Some people grow
so sick of it that they commit suicide. But that's hazardous, you could end
up in an even worse dream. You just don't know and gambling with reality
can be dangerous. You just dont know.
That is what keeps us alive.
. . w w w . a n a d a . n e t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. anada 105 by Mental Kompass (c)2000 anada e'zine .
. . w w w . a n a d a . n e t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
