Mankind in Dreamland

Pestered and pursued

by unknown foes

A topsyturvy land

where snakes can have horns

and cows can have fangs.

Night'mares' where the day's stallions

make mountains out of molehills

A chance to witness greek mythology-like creatures for real

For dreamland tis a place for the unreal and surreal.

Those hair-raising scary frightening dreams

beset with horrified silent screams!

We do try to interrupt nightmares, pinching ourselves

With relief wake up to see there aren't any horrid elves.

We also try to interpret dreams filled with mystery

But gifted dream interpreters like prophet Joseph

Are now part of biblical human history

All in all, dreamland's fascination

for extra-ordinary exaggeration

and tall-tale imagination

Where myth and legend come to life

An amalgam of fiction or real strife

Where assorted monsters of the mind

reign supreme in that REM sleep of our kind.

Yet on the other hand the wishful, wistful sweet sweet dreams

where fantasies form mirages bordered by fanciful seams.

Where castles in the air that humans build, float gently down to earth

only to shoot back up unto nowhere from the awakened one's berth.

In dreamland a pauper girl can be a princess or fairy fair

for daydreams extend into the night and linger on there.

A quote I took to heart and it to console all and sundry

'that if your sweet dreams don't come true, don't you fret

for atleast your nightmares didn't come true either,

so just heave a sigh, by and by.

Every night let us all just ascend and fly to escape

And lo behold the extraordinary world of Dreamscape.

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