How can this be?  In Dreams… Dream insights #2

It seemed so real,
when I saw my aunt again…
she had killed herself with a shotgun.
But there she was and I was so
confused.  I didn’t know what to say.

I heard a Native American belief that
the dead visit us in dreams
and this gives a certain knowledge
of the spiritual or our soul.

My aunt was just there
and I’m so confused.
I’m afraid to ask how it is that she
lives.

I saw my grandfather too,
in my dreams,
several times,
after he died,
It always seems so real
and so confusing.

I used to think that somehow
I needed them to be alive
and with me.

Yet, that’s not it.
I had not seen my aunt
very much
when she was alive
nor my grandfather.

For some reason,
in my dreams,
they are alive.

Bruce Whealton 2009