Echoes

Blackness warm and thick around me
I dream sometimes
Flowing along currents
Of long ago things
Sometimes warm and bright other times cold and hard
Shapes and faces I don't recognize
I dive deeper and deeper and it becomes darker and darker
Sometimes they flash across my eyes suddenly when I am awake
The darkness takes form and the blackness takes on many hues
I close my eyes so I can't see
I feel my way, like sound and smell all rolled into one
Musky and loud, rancid and clipped, sweet and faint
I feel something brush close to me
Familiar, warm and…Mother?
Startled, jerking back
Everything is black, too black for my eyes to pierce, maddeningly black
Ripples traveling back through time