The Nightmare

 Since my earliest childhood memories, I have been reliving a nightmare.  I am condemned to a dark maze with walls that are about a hundred feet apart and seem to stretch to infinity.  Peoples' screams, and yelling echo throughout the foggy maze and the ground is, uneven, moist, and slippery.  There is a disembodied voice that whispers in my ear to find my family in hell in order to escape it.  My sisters are among me, and parents are nowhere to be seen.  I turn to look around and then turn back to my sisters and they are also gone.  I am all alone, cold, and tired. 

I awake in the physical world, but the nightmare continues.  My family is here but I get no warmth, trust, or love; only an unforgiving contempt. 

I am a family of one.  

Aviles have accepted me as a son and a brother. I am family, I would do anything for them.  

Still in my heart the confusion, fear, and pain remains; just the same as when I was in the foggy maze. 

How can I awaken?