Elements

I was the leader of the elemental army. I fought until the gods of the water arrived to wash away the enemy with broad swaths of current. The earth erupted in rock formations to shake off advancing forces like fleas. But still I forgot my pack on the ferris wheel and no one believed who I was. I was tempted to leave completely and start over somewhere else. Is it their fault they're mired in bureaucracy? Why should I try so hard to help them if they can't see through the webbing they're bound by? There's so much potential but they've forgotten who they really are.

Chaos

Before a great vision can become reality there may be difficulty. Before a person begins a great endeavor, they may encounter chaos. As a new plant breaks the ground with great difficulty, foreshadowing the huge tree, so must we sometimes push against difficulty in bringing forth our dreams. Out of chaos, brilliant stars are born.

prophecy

I've never had a prophetic dream, which is a relief, given the magnitude of violence in my head while I'm asleep. Sometimes I'm the killer, sometimes an observer. I'm rarely the one being attacked. I used to keep dream journals trying to find a pattern and how it related to what was happening in my life at the time. I gave up, never finding a correlation. When things are great, I have nightmares. When they're not, I have nightmares. I haven't had the adrenaline-firing night terrors in a while, though. I don't miss those. It's hard to tell what's real and what's a dream at that point. I'll always have at least one dog to raise the alarm in case what I think is a dream is real. If they're not concerned, then it's all in my head.