Sleep, Evanescent

Deep, deep, deeper ... A dark so fluid I am lost Swimming, choking, in ink Still, I dive, soaring down, down Faster and faster as I dive I breathe now, sucking in light And brilliance and purifying joy I fill my being with blinding brilliance And it strengthens me, faster Just before I hit, I shift upward Soaring into a glimmering indigo Breath of knowledge and wonder Against my cheek ... I exhale, impure It hangs in front of me like tapestry I soar through like a bead curtain The next brane hangs in crimson So thin I can see through it, tissue But as I soar in and beyond it comes It stretches and bends as if latex Slowing my progress Then throwing me back as it rebounds No matter, I simply glide the other way Picking up speed, up, up, up Into a sparkling expanse of limitless value Into an indigo void I glide, fast I HIT! I hit and am bursting through! Layers and layers of diaphanous brittle And as I explode each one there is a Burst of energy in my mind An exquisitely integral and clear pop of knowledge Each one an incredible, awesome revelation! Each thin layer smashes into a million fragments And is absorbed by my mind In what is an ANSWER! The secrets to quantum reasoning! The answers to light travel And solving increasing mass! Formulas and techniques and equations ... All as yet unsolved! All questions that hang in a void of time That is FAR beyond our comprehension Yet here they ARE! ALL those answers, in front of me, crashing! And each one a CHARM! Each one is child's play! But of COURSE!! Why did we not ever see them in such simplicity?!? They're all here, now in my mind ... And why humanity has yet uncovered them Or answered them is beyond understanding! A child could grasp them - a CHILD!! Why didn't I know these things before?!? Why this purity of acumen and clarity of thought Escaped ANYone before is beyond grasp! I come to rest on a ledge of stone Overlooking all creation In its entirety Future, present, past Accomplishment and horror Art, beauty, breathtaking perfection, destruction, keen All ablaze in the light of a purple sun All await the voice I search to find The one at my core that will release All that I have just acquired In its nascency and immaculate chastity SO simple! So fine and pure! I have never felt so extraordinarily full ... Of knowledge, of euphoria, of keen understanding And of sanctified, unequaled JOY!! Listen, now, to the wonders of the Universe The answers to all the questions of coruscation And perspicacity and REASON! Oh, so SIMPLE, you will SEE!! Of course - why did we not see it all the time?? Of COURSE! All our questions, unlocked forever! Listen, now ... Listen ... blink, blink, BRIGHT! Oh, dear god ... Oh, no - dear god, no ... Please, no! I was dreaming, and now I wake! Please, dear god, NO!! Oh, god ... I'm AWAKE! It was a dream! But I knew it ALL!! All the answers - so SIMPLE! The deepest questions of humanity! Oh, god, it was a dream, and now ... it's ... all ... GONE.