A STORY. 41. SHOPPING FOR DREAMS

Shopping for Dreams

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I Hold You

Those were other titles that attracted you.

You’re still in the comfortable old armchair. You’re not ready to go back into the world outside the bookstore. But which title pulls you the most?

Shopping for Dreams is the title you keep coming back to. You imagine a new neighborhood shop, The Dream Shop.

You remember back to a dream shop of sorts - the comic book section of a local corner store. Week after week you’d go in and shop for dream adventures. Super heroes. Super powers. Rescuing the universe from evil villains.

You turn to Shopping for Dreams.

https://elsasemporium.com/shopping-for-dreams.html

Shopping with dreams
              on the top of the list

Shopping 
         hoping the dream will come real

Window shopping
         and buying
   trying on while dreaming
               buying
                     jeans
               trying for dreams
hoping for dreams to come real

How do you make dreams come real? Becoming a super hero couldn’t happen, no matter how many comic books you got, no matter how many hours you spent imagining.

I can taste the dream
      I can feel the dream
   But it’s not real, the dream

So what was real?

The longing. That was real.

the t-shirt is real
the jeans are real
the earrings
the sandals 
the lip gloss
          are real

I’m buying
          hoping  longing
                dreaming
                      my dream will
                               come real

https://elsasemporium.com/shopping-for-dreams.html

The comic book. That was real. Comic book after comic book. Those were real.

So were history and geography and social studies.

So dull, in comparison.

I’m living inside
            inside my dream
   in a fog, in a mist
            kissed by the dream
   drifting inside my dream

How to make the dream come real? There wasn’t any way you ever found, for your dreams.

I’m inside my dream
            Can’t buy my dream
                 but all I look at
                     all I try on
                         it’s for the dream

But this is a different kind of dreaming. You could never become a cosmic super hero. But here …

inside my dream
                sure it will come real
                     someday
                           if only

How much of that dream could come real?

The t-shirt, jeans, earrings, sandals - they’re more than just themselves.

Love and romance. That could also become real. In some way or other, they often become real.

Never like in the dream, though. You know that very well.

You decide you’ve been in the old bookstore long enough for the day.

To be continued …
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Posted May 1, 2024