When I Realize I'M Sleeping
I’m soaring through all of the things I’ve seen
Dancing with the ways things could have been
I don’t need eyes to vision my dreams
To drift in your world
And swing as I sleep
The careless slumbers of something sweet
There’s evidence here that I’m nothing pure
Yet somehow I lie in the dirt and glimmer
The sun shines through
Sky streaks through the mud
I can feel you are close
I am aware of your love
It pounds in me and it’s eating you
A whisper of life
A taste so raw
I can feel it in my bones
In my words and my thoughts
How ironic
That a fear of death is what kills me
And brings me to life
Opens my eyes and widens my skies
Eternal space
Nothing yet full
I watch my breath, imagine the clouds I exude
When what I see becomes a part of me
The stars will be knots in my bloodstream
My lungs full of water, the sway of the sea
It’s rocking me
And it’s scaring you
You see in me what I’ll never wish to see in you
Everywhere I’ve been is everything I am
I look under rocks, I check under the bed
Where is the divine, is it all in my head?
I question reality in all of its forms
I’m dreaming a dream within a dream where I’m dreaming that I’m dreaming
I am awake and alive when I realize I’m sleeping
Copyright © Ashley Skillman | Year Posted 2010
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