"In another life?" By Ben Goode 2016 (c)

I had a very sad dream last night.
It felt so very real.
As if it was a segment from another life.
I will tell it the best I can recall it.
I was a little boy who had young parents, who were still grieving over the loss of their daughter Reyley, 
who was my older sister.
My mother was always very sad, often visiting the grave of Reyley, she would scream and cry, grasping at the grass, and tearing it up, screaming "I just want to take her home again!
Why did you take her from me?"
I found I would try and console her, and she'd push me away.
"You don't understand, leave me alone!"
I felt as if she didn't love me, and my father tried to explain, he couldn't help her either.
He would often dress as a clown, to try and make me happy, knowing that my mother was too heartbroken.
I didn't know much about my sister, so she must have died before I was born.
My mother seemed to blame herself for her death.
I was frustrated that she was so distracted, and never seemed to care about me.
But I felt bad for my mother too, she was always so sad.
My parents weren't happy, and seemed to be growing apart.
I woke up from the dream not long after, relieved I was back in my own life.
But still felt as if I had lost someone.
Reyley the sister I never had.
But maybe I did, in another life?