Someday

Did you ever have vivid dreams as a kid, the kind that seemed to come only when your mom gave you that special cold medicine? They don’t make them like they used to.

I had a dream like that last night, and I tried to hold onto it this morning. I am one of those sleepers who wakes up repeatedly and only gets deep into dreamland in the early hours of the morning. When the dreams start, they appear to last for hours, and then I look up, and it is maybe 30 minutes later.

This is usually the time I dream that I have woken up and gotten dressed, and then I wake up for real and worry that I overslept.

Today’s early morning dream was nothing like that. It was full of longing, missing people, and wanting to be in a different space. I am struggling a bit with living in reality for so long.

I want someday to come now, but I am not sure what that will really look like. Who are the cast of characters that will be there with me, and what does the scenery look like? It is like a dream I can’t hold onto. The edges are getting fuzzy.

But I will wait. I have to.