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Sleep
In my dreams, I sleep
In my awake, I sleep
In my mind, I sleep
I sleep in not apathy but unawareness
I sleep in not as frivolous but free reining
I live the world in sleep surrounded by sprinkling fairies
Sprinkling the dust of youth from tippy toe to tippy top
The dust is light, light like my head
The dust is tender, tender like my skin
The dust is clear, clear like my mind
The dust is benevolence, it sings bene a tutti e due
The dust is genesis, the beginning, the prolonged and new.
Close your eyes
and see the darkness
But I
I see light
That is the sleep
The slumber
The break
The breath
The solace
That is-my carriage across the world
On its back I am through the hills of Malaysia
Through the beach of Jamaica
And to the immortal unknown.
With my sleep in the obscure, I see the meaning
With my sleep in the daunting, I see the timid
With my sleep in the proud, I see the jealous
With my sleep in the bedlam, I see the field
For even If I do not know
My sleep is my eyes
My eyes are my heart
And my heart is soothed.
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I use sleep as a metaphor in this poem for being calm in life and content. Also like how sleep can be interrupted by nightmares or other things, the calm can be interrupted. Still though I aspire to be this calm in my life. It reminds me of stoicism-being calm and letting everything that you cannot control just flow through you, it is to be happy with both your ups and down in life and to come back to calmness even when disrupted. It makes you see the world through a whole new lens.