parasocial (i know the people in my dreams)
i know the people in my dreams sometimes we (i?) fall in love or chase eachother through dormitories or watch weddings through glass doors as i tell them the secrets of my sleep
today, the man nods but looks through me he knows something i don’t and his longing gaze holds omniscience i’ve never known conscious
i don’t see the signs of falsity until i’m far from him and it’s only when i wake will i comprehend how they will always know me better than i know them
in every moment of dreaming, i will appear empty-handed and forgetful but still he engages with me, eyes of disconsolacy asking me questions to continue the line he already knows i will forget to ask again, as i did yesterday and the day before that
and although my consciousness feigns a loss of hope from the people in my dreams i still wonder if it makes me divine for how sleep manifests the anthropomorphism of my thoughts
but most of all, if he only lives for tonight or if he becomes another for tomorrow and how i will miss him either way
perhaps this paints me lonely or recognizes a potential for heroism or suggests an evaluation
either or i know the people in my dreams and i know the backdrops are only for tonight and there was no weddings or men wondering but as they’re there they know me and i’ll be back