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Sleep

October 7, 2022
By Gabadaba GOLD, Jamaica, Other
Gabadaba GOLD, Jamaica, Other
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In my dreams, I sleep

In my awake, I sleep

In my mind, I sleep

I sleep in not apathy but unawareness

I sleep in not as frivolous but free reining

I live the world in sleep surrounded by sprinkling fairies

Sprinkling the dust of youth from tippy toe to tippy top

The dust is light, light like my head

The dust is tender, tender like my skin

The dust is clear, clear like my mind

The dust is benevolence, it sings bene a tutti e due

The dust is genesis, the beginning, the prolonged and new.

 


Close your eyes

and see the darkness

But I

I see light

That is the sleep

The slumber

The break

The breath

The solace

That is-my carriage across the world

On its back I am through the hills of Malaysia

Through the beach of Jamaica

And to the immortal unknown.

 


With my sleep in the obscure, I see the meaning

With my sleep in the daunting, I see the timid

With my sleep in the proud, I see the jealous

With my sleep in the bedlam, I see the field

For even If I do not know

My sleep is my eyes

My eyes are my heart

And my heart is soothed.


The author's comments:

I use sleep as a metaphor in this poem for being calm in life and content. Also like how sleep can be interrupted by nightmares or other things, the calm can be interrupted. Still though I aspire to be this calm in my life. It reminds me of stoicism-being calm and letting everything that you cannot control just flow through you, it is to be happy with both your ups and down in life and to come back to calmness even when disrupted. It makes you see the world through a whole new lens.


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