Not because of tired body or of world-weariness
\nThat I often long to sleep.<\/p>\n
It is not to turn the switch off of my brain,
\nOr to change the scene of my existence,
\nThat I need to sleep.<\/p>\n
To sleep is to cross into another realm,
\nWhere the subliminal kingdom reigns,
\nThoughts and fantasies, present and past,
\nMeld into one coherent abstraction,
\nDiffused but definite,
\nUnhampered in its journey,
\nUnmindful of its purpose.<\/p>\n
Give me an hour of sleep for an hour of wakefulness,
\nAn outlet for an anguished spent state,
\nTo reconfigure the map of the life-journey,
\nTo realign the compass of my soul.<\/p>\n
The creativity furnace of sleep,
\nSynthesizes new visions and new emotions,
\nNew understandings and new energies,
\nOut of basic elements of existence.<\/p>\n
Organized thought for too long may smother the birth of a new vision,
\nA dream has more power than a thousand reasons,
\nSleep is the unhindered flow of fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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