finally, i slept last night and i dreamt
that no matter which way i turned to
the faces i’d see all had smiles
those, that before, had tears in their eyes
the one’s that had sadness and pain
all of them had smiles
the bird whose wings were broken was
now mended and it flew high and sang
with other birds and they formed a choir
the wolf who no longer had to fear the
gun of a hunter and the dolphin not afraid
to swim without being ensnared in netting
i dreamt that i saw my Mamasita, now
in her heaven, singing and dancing, saying
to me ‘i’m
okay, estoy bien, mi hijo’
and the greatest dream of them all, that
my love, my wife was cleansed of the big
‘C’ and we smiled together
it was nice to sleep again, nice to dream
again and when i awakened next to my love
we opened our eyes and smiled at each other
