What of Dreams? Written 11/13/14

What of Dreams? Written 11/13/14

It's said the sense of smell has the strongest link to memory.
Perhaps that's true.
Each time I catch a trace of your perfume,
It brings me back to lying by your side
and smelling comfort in the crook of your neck.

But what of dreams?
We know so little of them still
yet a bad dream can break your will
and dreams once lost,
now found, with hope our hearts refill.

Yet their unlasting nature is our bane
as waking gives the strongest sense of pain.
for dreams that feel so real can make one wish
that they could stay, never to wake again.

These dreams, like memories, imperfect scapes
that blend the past with what we wish to be.
We trick our minds into telling us lies,
That we so desperately want to believe.
Yet this is how we can go back in time
as if that time was present once again.
In ethereal suspense more perfect now,
remembered in perfection 'till the end.