Reassurance

Reassurance

The rain carried
a sorrowful dream
brought back by the underground smell.
It showed my past
where love
had given only ruptured promise.
Awakening in present
was strange with forgotten reality so near.
Bedroom blackness engulfed;
yielded fear of painful past as now.
Familiarity erased amnesia
I was home again,
the blackness merely darkness—
shattered dream,
a nightmare.

Marsha Salerno