kopper

 I was hurrying through the lower level of a modern shopping mall, but it looked like it had been completely cleared out - as if if was being used for a movie set. I knew, but did not see, that it was now attached to a subway system, and that the reason I was walking there was that LaFashionista and her boyfriend were ahead of me, trying to catch a train, and I needed to catch up with them.

 

Instead of being filled with people, kiosks, planters, and colourful advertisements, the atrium space was grey bare and sterile. The pillars were of f white in colour, the floor a speckled grey linoleum, and the light was not artificial , but natural , flooding in from the upper stories. There were no shops in the niches around the atrium, only empty archways.

As i neared the place which I presumed to be the entrance to the underground/ subway system, I saw that this part of the mall had debris on the floor –mostly broken glass, but also broken bottles of different colours. Still, the place was silent, empty of people, and there was no dirt or other debris – just the broken glass. I could not see and areas of damaged or broken glass, so could only conclude they came from above.

I was not alarmed, but somehow I knew that I should not continue to pursue Karen and Tyler, but continued to the opposite corner of the atrium. There was an area that had aluminium cafe tables and chairs, and looked out through glass window-walls to a sunken garden.

I was sitting at the table when my friend Firestorm the Nuclear Man came by wearing a long coat and carrying a briefcase. He stopped briefly, and apologized that he couldn't stay, saying that he had to get to campus. I noticed that under his coat – which at second glance could well have been a dressing gown – he was wearing brown corduroy slippers and brown-and-yellow plaid pyjama pants. Ant that's when I decided it must be a dream and woke up.

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Analysis - It's a dream about giving up and letting go, and about waiting. My kids are all out and grown - LaFashionista being the last to leave the nest and the area; BigKid and his bride are gathering boxes for the move North, and the other two daughters are in the area, but partnered and (somewhat) settled. They don't need me as much, and if they do, they know how to get hold of me.

At the moment I am far from home, but among friends. I miss my love, and am waiting to start our life together.