A Giant’s Dream
Life is nothing but a certain giant’s dream,
giant takes a big yawn upon waking up from sleep,
waking up is death,
we gotta pray for the giant to take a sleeping pill and get to rest,
when he goes back to sleep again,
That’s when we’ll live again.
Life’s a fantasy, a dream, a theater, a movie
and it goes the way we wish for it to go,
When we wake up we shouldn’t forget the dream,
the dream to go back to sleep.
Nothing goes on forever,
we are born again when the giant sleeps,
so sleep well and go higher on that fantasy wheel,
go some place where pain and heartbreak don’t come,
make me fly away and show me your world.
“A Giant’s Dream” is a poem that contemplates the nature of life as something beyond our control, likening it to a giant’s dream. Through this metaphor, the poem explores themes of existence, mortality, and the desire to escape the hardships of reality.
In the poem, life is described as the dream of a giant, where our existence depends on the giant’s state of sleep. The idea that waking up equates to death introduces a perspective where life and death are intertwined in the rhythm of the giant’s slumber. It’s a way of thinking about life as something fragile and fleeting, dictated by forces beyond our understanding.
The poem suggests that we should hope for the giant to stay asleep, so that we may continue to live within this dream. There’s an acknowledgment that life, in all its fantasy and surrealness, is something we navigate with a blend of hope and resignation. The notion of praying for the giant to take a sleeping pill is both whimsical and profound, reflecting a wish for continuity in a world that feels uncertain.
Further, the poem touches on the idea that life is a fantasy, a theater where we have some control over the narrative, but ultimately, it’s still part of a larger dream. The dream, then, becomes a symbol of life’s potential, of possibilities that are only realized when we allow ourselves to dream freely.
The call to “sleep well and go higher on that fantasy wheel” is an encouragement to embrace the dream fully, to explore the possibilities that life offers without fear of pain or heartbreak. It’s about seeking out the places where joy and wonder exist, where we can escape the harsher realities of life.
In writing “A Giant’s Dream,” I wanted to capture the delicate balance between the real and the imagined, the waking world and the dream world. It’s a reflection on how we perceive life and the comfort we find in the idea that, even in a world full of uncertainties, there is always a place for dreams.
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