Dreams

Text: Poem by Maureen Tolman Flannery

I am driving a car,

but I am only a child

and I don’t know how.

“Why have they let me do this?”

I keep asking myself

as I careen around corners.

I am not safe. The world is not safe.

I take my usual desk

in the front of the class.

Everyone’s preparing for the test.

Then it comes back to me:

this is the final exam.

Why, I wonder, didn’t I read this material? I’m completely unprepared.

I should have gone to class. I don’t even know what course this is.

How could I have let it come to this?

I am getting married.

Everything is lovely.

Flawless preparations have been made.

Everyone I know is there.

The church is beautiful;

I am beautiful;

Everything is perfect.

I look into the eyes of my bride

and realize:

I don’t know this woman.

Who is this person?

The walls of the Cathedral close in. What can I do now?

However did I get myself

in this predicament?

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