Every once in a while I'll have a dream about going back to high school. In many of them, I have to retake a year because of some clerical error. Then I usually find that I can't juggle high school and the working world, and I fail a class.
This past one was a little different. When I parked in the student lot, it was still dark out. I got out of my car and was greeting by an old high school friend, Blaine. Except this time he was a bully. (Anyone that knows Blaine is probably howling with laughter right now. He's the sweetest, kindest guy and probably couldn't be a bully if he wanted to.) He had a buddy, and the two of them started going through my car. His buddy took my lunch, took a bite of my sandwich, decided he didn't like it, and gave the half eaten sandwich back. I tried to steal his lunch in retaliation, but all he had was chips and sweets. Then Blaine tried to steal my books, and I flipped. I hit him and took my books back, which scared them away.
I went in the school and got my schedule and looked for someone to hang out with. I considered going to the top of the stairs to see if the old crowd was hanging out there, but then I decided not to. I ran into an acquaintance who I didn't think liked me very much, and her girlfriend, and went over to talk to them because I couldn't find anyone else. Her girlfriend was as nice as could be. I sat there and talked to them while I put on a pair of brown lace stockings and socks over them.
Then we got on a bus to go to the dorms. I got a small house, that even had a small garage, instead of a dorm because I was a working adult with a spouse. When I got off the bus, there were clothes hanging in the garage (like for a garage sale), and someone came out to greet me. The dream ended there.
The weird part is that I had this dream 2 nights ago. Last night I watched Requiem. There were a lot of parallels between the movie and my dream. Requiem is about a girl with epilepsy. She didn't go to college right after school because of "her thing," as her mom describes it. So when she did get accepted into college, she considered herself a year behind. So the movie is set in the first semester of her freshman year, with stuff like finding her class, getting a dorm, running into someone she went to highschool with, that person being mean to her, etc.
By the way, the movie itself wasn't all that great. The point of the movie was supposed to be that the girl thought she was possessed. The whole movie seemed to be building to a climax that ended up just being a bit of uneventful text on the screen at the end. It would be like a horror movie that showed the shadow of the monster, and then the screen went black and said, "And then the monster killed him. The end."
All that aside, here's the second of Brian's poems that he gave to me for our anniversary.
MEETING
by Braino
Soul to soul meeting,
an exquisite touch.
Like a feather slowly caressing,
With the intensity of a raging river,
Coursing through body and soul,
Experiencing an earthquake.
But bathes you in loving light,
Yet producing a magical peace of mind,
That leaves you shaken and awed.
Inconceivable ecstasy weakens,
Never to be forgotten,
But always treasured.
A soul to soul meeting.