Daughter

Date: 4/12/2024

I was outside my old neighborhood in Lakewood and I saw a bunch of play refrigerator magnets and oranges in the streets outside my old house. I get out of my car to start picking them up. I know I don't live there anymore but am trying to be helpful. I see A.K's house and wonder if she still lives there. Somewhere in the middle I realize I'm wearing nothing but a pair of black underwear. So I start looking for something to cover up. There is dirty laundry people who have left outside. I try to put something on, begging to borrow something and I will pay them back, I realize I can't find my car. The police arrive and I hear whispers about "sectioning" me. And the neighborhood fades into a hospital room, where I finally am given a piece of cloth. Someone says don't you want to see your daughter? And I'm confused because I say I don't have one. And they say yes you do and she has dark skin and hair and they raise some blinds and behind some glass I see a baby girl sitting up and I recognized her and she's beautiful and I'm overwhelmed