The Damnedest Dream

I had the damnedest dream last night
But then I'd used a heating pad
to ease the soreness in my neck
just before sleep
And perhaps I'd overwarmed
my brain as well

But this came from way left field
A business competitor from years ago
a guy I'd scarcely thought of
in twenty years
And there he was in perfect clarity
imposing upon my sleeping life

A word of explanation to the reader
This fellow used to clean my clock
Regularly winning contracts
The best there was
fFar more skilled than me
and he bettered me again last night

Dream interpreters, make of it what you will
This throwback to a time long gone
But I awakened with a strange sense
of pleasure
that he would take the time
to reappear and get me once again