or: Another Attempt to Capture a Dream Lesson

Because she fears the basement so, her dreams
keep sending her on errands to the place.
And tension always mounts because it seems
the light no longer works – she’s forced to face
her way in darkness to that underworld.
And then she finds no stairway to descend –
she steps and falls abysmally. She’s hurled
into a lightless depth that has no end.

But she has thought it over and prepared
herself to comprehend the drop’s a dream –
a phantom fall that will not make her scared –
a hurtless hurtle through the land of seem.
As she forsakes her fear, the bowl of night
inverts to blue, and lofts her like a kite.