Lee-John woke up in his Viking village home in Norway, fresh.
For a moment, he could not untangle quite a complex mesh
Of reality and dreams hed had the night before, which sauntered
Quite predominantly in his mind. He felt that hed been haunted.
In the hours hed slept that night, hed dreamt hed been attacked at sea
By some pirates. Then a giant widowed princess set him free.
She was Ambloome. With an amulet, shed come from her own planet.
They had fought the many villains, who once briefly overran it.
He had courted Ambloome slowly, and shed gained the power to shrink
To his size, which helped her sail in Viking boats she might make sink
At her giant size. In time she had her great inauguration
As the latest Queen of Giants. Hed enjoyed her coronation.
He had married her at some point, though his mind would now prevent
Any hazy recollection which could pinpoint that event
In the sequence of events, which had occurred while hed been dreaming.
Now it left him quite convinced the real world needed some redeeming.
He had lived a batch of years in one long night, while he had slept.
How he wished that such a fantasy could be preserved and kept.
It had all been so realistic. He was almost left believing
That it had been real. In fact he mourned the dream with actual grieving.
While recalling such a marriage to a lovely giant Queen,
He decided that his fantasy of sleep should then be seen
By the world, in some artistic type of medium. He stated
His intention to the village Timely Scribe, and then narrated.
Then the Scribe converted story notes to long and rhyming verse,
But the publishers would pass it up, accepting things much worse,
Glorifying infidelity and rank inebriation.
With such things becoming normal, Ambloome seemed a deviation.
So the manuscript remained concealed, where no-one ever saw
Its great content, in the darkness of the Timely Scribes desk drawer
In the back of his old book shop, where he worked each day and traded
In the literature of yesterday, with old editions graded.
Lee-John had been so affected by the night of sleeping bliss,
That he couldnt just resume his normal life. Hed come to miss
Lovely Ambloome and her world of giant friends that hed been making.
There were leaves of dreams inside his thoughts he couldnt grasp by raking.
He recalled a midnight party in Australia, that he dreamt.
Since he found the life around him now so empty and unkempt,
He decided he would take a flight to Sydney and endeavor
To indulge in recollections, which his waking up did sever.
So he caught the plane and stared out from his window seat at views
Of the country he was leaving. He was happy to excuse
All his wishful thoughts of other worlds and dreams of gladly sharing
Earth with giantesses from those worlds. He felt himself despairing.
When he got to Sydney, he was glad he knew his way around,
Even though he couldnt think of ever having left the ground
In a plane before. Yet he could recognize the geographic
Distribution of the suburbs and conditions of the traffic.
Giantess World
Author's Chapter Notes:
Lee-John the Viking awakens to find that his marriage to Ambloome was merely a dream.