which one will you choose?

Elizabeth Ryba©2011

Which one will you choose?

In a dream line, I walk to a mountain’s base.  A gentle height, covered in mossy greens and miniature trees, a dark cloud forms above.  An image bleeds through; a man my sights can barely comprehend.  Jim Morrison descends the slope and stands before me.  He holds a deck of cards motioning for me to choose one.  I wonder is this really happening?  Mesmerized, I can hear his song, “Break on through” emanating within the wind.  A smile curls on his lips and he flashes the cards again, asking  “Which one will you choose?”  I seize a card and slowly, move my eyes from the black leather-clad Lizard King before me, to the treasure in my hand.  It is the queen of diamonds.  I quickly seek his dark eyes for resonance, for meaning.  Melodically swaying he begins to chant;

Kings and queens a-falling,

History for you comes calling

Looking back you will see

How everything’s becoming free.

Crowded streets

And fitful streams

Of changing tides,

Where water rushes, lady moon cannot hide.

Dripping

Dropping

Each moment comes.

For you my queen

Eternity has won.

The night was December 2nd, 2010.  Only a short time later, I see a King and Queen together in another dream.  It is January 12, 2011.  Seated in an underground cavern, torches illuminating the earthen walls, three figures enter the room; Isis, Osiris and Anubis.  Isis is in the middle, holding on to the others for support.  She wails at the wooden stake lodged in her back.  Taking her to a marbled altar, they lay her down.  Anubis begins to chant.  His voice trembles through my body as he performs ritual upon her.  A voice speaks beside me, “Sirius.”

I wake, to write and rewrite these dream’s clues.

A couple weeks later, I learn of the first of many “kings and queens a-falling” as Morrison had chanted, and of the stake in the back of Isis.  Egypt’s leader falls to the people’s revolution in late January 2011.  His fall has been only one of many.

History is becoming free it seems…

Isis is Egypt’s great Mother, the beginning of all things.  May her wound heal timely…before she leaves us all to remain with her chanting healer, Anubis and his eternal procession in the Underworld.