Another Dimension

They come unbidden in the
night, the realities of 
another dimension, the 
existence of which presents
this sleeper with times and
places and the presence of
loved ones as they once were,
not as they now are, still with
this life, but yet in intimate 
context of an earlier life. 
With them are those also who 
belong in the past, but are 
no longer present, but for 
their places, in these my dreams. 
An utter confusion of what
once was and no longer is,
even while I am aware of
these dissonances in that
life and this one, left
bemused, wondering which
one is real, which is not.