The Axe

(I'm coming for everything they said I couldn't have . . .)

“It was all a dream,” they told me.

Over and over in soothing tones, they said it was all a dream.  The confusion would go away soon, I was told, and they would take care of me.  And when the soothing tones didn’t work as they had hoped, they would be harsh and cruel and violent.  Because it was all dream, they said.  It’s dangerous to have dreams that o…