In this dream, I'm an Indian confronted
by a military commander.
His regiment behind him, seeking to intimidate me
into going away.
I am pointing to Earth and sky to say I am of both.
And that it is they who have to leave.
At this, I must wake up to warn that, if what he says is true,
all of us are lost.
I am the commander's countryman.
And in my dream, I urge him to take off his uniform at once
and walk away, or go bathing in the nearest spring
to save the world.