Windy apparitions float around me
I dream I can fly but I am only a seal
Confined to seven seas

I swim on as the song of years sweetly passes by
Oh to be a man to live and die
Above the ocean tides

I jump above the surface
But my fins never transform
To allow me to walk on still waters

Strangely I have developed knees
Only to tremble with Jello in the marrow
And collapse at the slightest breeze

The storm picks up raging
Above me sunshine hurls its spit
If I wasn’t so edgy I’d just have to quit

I’m gonna take one more jump
The giant leap from seal to man
Down to the depths I dive deeper

Seeing but not willing to understand
The thoughts that rush past me
As I reach the underworld land

I rise up flying out of the dark
My fins transform to wings on grandeur
Only to be pelted by heaven’s rain of dilapidated tar

I fall to the cold roadside
Unable to open my eyes
To see the lump of dust I have become

Swirls of awaken thunder
As breath fills my lungs
There I see the reflection a man

No fins on my side but hands
Feet to walk dry ground
In the pinnacle of nadir

The moment I arise
Perpetrators are at hand
Devising schemes of all surprises

Come to Jack-in-the-Box kitchen
Sand dust is served
For your eyes are hungry

Open and have a bite
The content is gulling
Past the unscathed

Smoothed over by molten lava
Bleeding eyes dangle
Conjoined cripple knees
Crawl out the water

Transformed to only
Half the man I used to be

After a night of tossing and turning this is the dream that showed up. Feel free to interpret it any way you want. I see it as time to move on and start a new stage in life. I don’t actually know what the poem means but the words came to me when I was asleep and I recorded an audio file when I was half awake. When I was in Chicago I spend some time watching the seals and dolphins and made some videos. Maybe that has something to do with the dream, but I think this dream says a lot more.

As I looked into I am not the only one to think about Seals changing into humans. When I read into this some more there is a Scottish legend about the Selkies. On land they are like men, but when they are in the water they become transformed into Seals. http://roanefamilytree.com/The_Seal_Men.html
I guess my dream was like this but in a reverse process.

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Hope you enjoyed the poem,

Have a great week.

Love,

@mineopoly