In the Blink of a Dream

It happened in sleep, drunk yet lucid. I defied my father's views and renounced my mother in her grave, listening to his anger. I stood on no moral floor. Father tried to threaten my life in the blink of a dream. I gave him an opening and surrendered my life. As he awaited my hesitation, his baffled eyes looked into a moment of fearlessness— until I awoke with a child's passion: death shall not take me without a fight.