Night'mares'

they are generally of the order of monsters hiding under the bed.. mostly during nights.. second mostly in dark rooms, when the lights are off.. at least that's how it used to be some two and a half decades back.. i strongly believed that Mamma had magic powers in her fingers and the monsters were rendered immovable even with her standing at the doorway.. and at that moment i used to feel like the greatest and the bravest power! albeit 'borrowed'! but the hell with it! it was my Mamma!

two and a half decades since then.. i have grown.. pretty much vertically till the time gravity caught up.. no more afraid of dark rooms.. somewhat skeptical of my early days' belief  of Mamma's magic fingers.. new found love for Grimm's Fairy Tales for what it really is and not for what it was portrayed to be as and yet at the same time being tremendously fascinated by the manner in which it was successful in portraying what it did.. made a mental note of the camouflage tips..

but, two and a half decades later, nightmares still exist.. maybe not in the form of monsters under the bed.. for, now, my bed has no 'under the bed' provision! and thus proves the fact that monsters don't really hide under the bed and pounce upon you when it is completely dark..

nightmares.. they still manage to bug me.. exactly a year back i had it at worst.. or so i'd thought.. and the effect of it being, me booking tickets to my cities of love.. back to back weekends.. of course long weekends helped.. and love sure helped! and so i'd thought that i had the last of it.. the last of waking up, startled, in the middle of the night with statements floating around in empty space taking scary forms..
which brings me to this very term "nightmares".. is it something to do with "horses"?  but, if you ask me, they aren't that vicious even in their looks.. bushy tail and dopey eyes.. and the 'mares' are definitely the most polite ones! they even let people on top of them! so, they ain't the evil messengers..

but maybe, it really has something to do with "horses".. Harry Potter had "Thestrals".. and they were scary.. at least scary looking.. so maybe, night'mares' indeed..

enough with horses, i think..
the bottom line being, they still happen.. they still hold true.. irrespective of dark rooms or under the bed.. irrespective of someone else's magical powers.. they exist..

and they still somehow find their way back at me.. sometimes as 'statements'.. sometimes as 'teeth'.. and sometimes as weird feelings that blur the thin line of distinction between dreamland and reality..

p.s. high time, these night'mares' metamorphose into unicorns.. i can definitely do with some magic, now that the city of love is too far away.