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serenity blaze
Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738


0 posted 2002-10-07 08:10 PM


Surrendered.
Now, I finally slept.
I dreamt a dream
of horses--white,
like statues
in a sacred mist,
moonlight--sanctified.

I wore a dress of gossamer.
The stars were winking, knowing eyes...
I felt a wetness on my cheek.
Surprised, I knew, that joy, too, cries...

A breeze of blue--
the wind swept through
(whirl of silver
clouds mind's eye)
when then, the flood--
a scent of blood--
(sweat of night
in day, reprised...)

Horses--headless--
shank exposed,
cutting, jagged, as a knife.
Red-on-white--
no peace at night,
and daytime will not be my home.

Even through the depth of sleep,
a massacre lay at my feet.
Entrails of this majesty,
dance
in sorrow's liquid light...
Too much--TOO MUCH---
for me to see...
I don't know how
to close eyes twice.

A silent scream.
I writhe awake.
drowning
in the sweat of sorrow.
Awake,
alive,
to my chagrin--
aware--
I'll sleep again--tomorrow?


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note: just my explanation for my incredible bouts of insomnia...my record for time spent awake was 70 hours...sigh...yep, I was holding conversations with shadows at that point...sigh. Wish me luck tonight...I YAM tired.


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bsquirrel
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855

1 posted 2002-10-08 12:17 PM


I will now pull a brian...

Surrendered
dream
gossamer
eyes

night reprised

Entrails dance
in sorrow

aware--

brian sites
Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475
usa
2 posted 2002-10-08 02:24 PM


ahhhhh..... So this is why you don't sleep
love yr restless muse, Sen  

Briany

[This message has been edited by brian sites (10-09-2002 11:38 AM).]

eor
Senior Member
since 2002-09-26
Posts 959
blues & greys
3 posted 2002-10-08 02:36 PM


yes i also fight that never ending battle, tis a tough, best of luck...eor
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