Agapito

I was with some family and friends at a beach swimming, playing in the sand, having a good time. At a certain point, I started bouncing down the shoreline as if I had a spring attached to me, in a squatting position, smiling and blowing kisses. I remembered from geology how sand can migrate down the coast with the power of the waves and mused that I was doing the same. But I was bouncing higher and higher, and at the end of the shore was a large gray rock against which I was painlessly shattered, and now I was no longer bouncing but flying.

Yet I couldn't control my flight. I was coming to a large stone gray wall with indented stairways and doors. Although it had a lure and attraction of mystery, I senses there was something wrong about it… I belonged on the beach, in the fields and woods below, with PEOPLE. And I heard someone singing in the distant field "I can't take these evil needs."

I saw a few children running in the field below, and I realized that if I loved them I could come back down, cease drifting away to the wall of gray. My love was like the flaps and ailerons of a plane through which it can be steered and land. Yet I couldn't land: I didn't love them enough. Then I saw three black children running from a man who seemed bent on punishing them severely for some trivial wrong they had done. I managed to land quickly, and in my embrace they became invisible to all harm.

dream archive 2/17/88