Dreamt I walked through the twisting cave alone. No light save the lit oil lamp I brought with me. It illuminated my hand clearly, but everything else was seen more with imagination than sight.
The large black statue waited silently in the rear of the cave. I approached the human size statue and recognized it as a larger version of the hand-size Black Madonna statue on my shelf.
I knelt down and placed a wreath of white flowers at her feet.
“[Earth Mother]…”
Though the language of the name escaped me, the meaning was very clear. The realization of what I said came with a sudden extinguishing of the oil lamp. The crushing darkness shattered the dream as it rushed to envelop me.
Bartender, I’ll take that coffee with several extra shots, please.