My Dreams at Night
When I Sleep
I don’t have dreams.
It is pitch black.
It is like a computer screen when it’s turned off.
I may hear the click of the heater going on and off.
I don’t feel anything when I am sleep.
I am a deep sleeper.
I don’t feel anything when I am sleep unless
it is my sister rolling me off the bed to wake me up!
Sometimes I don’t even feel that.
I may have a dream of me falling
but it is just my sister pushing me off the bed!!
L.G
from Her Eyes Were Truth, writings from residents of the Battered Women & Children’s Shelter of Bexar County. 2006


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