Daytime Somnambulism

Daytime Somnambulism How haunting the loss When one squanders consciousness Soul to surface Dreams of dances unrealized Oh how tempting This somnambulistic space we possess Where unlived experience resides Intimidated by actuality Hidden in shackled prisons of vagary Fearful of breath-held reality Sadly Too many walk this realm of un-being Where shadowed innocence lingers But to offer ever so subtle lessons Where self respect Grants liberty of soul How sublime exploratory stumbling Where light and darkness Ignore separation Respecting one another's captivity One foot ahead of the other Becoming all that we are Even as naysayers Bellow "Beware!" Step Dive Forget the risk Be the dream's dreamer Let pass the cautions Lest we forget Sleep walkers by day Represent but craven journeys Going needlessly nowhere