"Through Familiar Eyes" - Written By : CHRISDOESLAPZ

One night, I dreamed something serious...... What if I went to a world where I didn't exist. I'd come to my own family house, a stranger with familiar faces surrounding me. I'd converse about an unheard of amount of information, sounding suspect in every way. My Father and step father talking about back in the day in detail with me adding references.

  Asking my sister about our nephew even though I wasn't given any hints of who he was. My mother spoke about how she had surgery a few years back and I finished all of her sentences. And that being the last straw for my step father and actual father. Hearing enough, they jack me up, holding me in a corner real quick, telling me they'd kill me if I didn't tell them how I knew so much about their family. Rightfully so, imma stranger with no connection to these people, my family that in my world is real low key and moves without a lot of people around.

 How does this young man, with no prior encounters with ANYBODY in this room, know so much. So, in my best words, I explain every detail. Telling them that this room is filled with people I love and/or loved and cared about in my life. Where in this world it's around 10 years earlier than now outside of my dream, and it's good to see my grandmother and grandfather, still kicking in this world, and how it's almost torturous having to see them and they don't recognize me. How my mother must stay strong in the coming years, congratulating her on the coming daughter, and how she married a good man.

 To my cousins I tell them I love them, even when they looked at me as a plague and how each of them can make better decisions in the future. To my sister I say I know life hits like a truck, but you're too strong of a woman to be torn down by the world around you. And to my father I tell him he's expecting a son and to be more of a father to him then any of his other kids because his past mistakes don't make him but at least learn from them. I clown my cousins a little more and leave out  of my own house where the family reunion of sorts is being held. Sad, Happy and content at the same time. 

Waking up, I say to myself... Damn...... I haven't smoked in like a week, how'd my brain do that.......