Dream Journal: Episode I

Brace yourself as my nightmare is about to begin

Dangling through rooms with a couple of my friends

Looks like a mixture of my school and college within

Seeing all sorts of oddities, we start to rescind

A zoo infestation of our corridors is happening

A lion in one room, another with a penguin

Parrots talk all sorts of rubbish on our whim

Another gate had a giraffe dangling on his chin

Worst of all were two gorillas with a large neck hinge

But this was all setup; the nightmare was starting slow

Gorillas jumped out their gates and into the open snow

Starting chasing my friend and I through the windows

Apparating inside open rooms, how can we win, though?

Escape is impossible; the next door is the fox home

Luring it with whistles was the failure of our M.O.

Standing at the doors, gorilla and fox stared cold

Full-blown attack launched when owners came to know

Hiding behind some bags, latching on to my thin coat

Safe to say, we lost the battle, and the animals won

All trapped inside the rooms, but I managed to run

Taking a breather from the balcony under the sun

Reminiscing the friend I lost due to carnage come

Oh, shoot! The gorilla was also standing, just one

Start praying for my life until the humans return

Gorilla just staring deep into my soul, and I’m stunned

Hearing the commotion outside, the animal lunged

And I scream sky-high, waking up in sweat unturned.

By: Arman Yusuf