"There and Back Again" or "An Unexpcted Journey"

Sleep comes quickly and lights upon me like a hawk.

It's long curved talons reach subtly into my mind,

Then it rises on the current of the cosmos into the world that's undefined.

That strange place of cliffs and caves and wind,

A swirling starry night of cumulous clouds and lightning.

My dreams run by like many waters, a current of colors and scenes rush by.

Still higher past the plain of reason, past the fourth and fifth dimensions...

A clap of hyper-rational thunder,

An understanding lands in my skull like a salmon in the paws of a bear.

The tapestry of reality untwines like the laces of a corset,

And time and space are laid bare.

Nothing is real.

I drift and sift through walls and laws, avoiding natural physics and math with all its flaws.

A snap, and the hawk releases its grip, my mind is slipping,

Falling back through all the layers and down the winding stairs.

If I can't wake up before I land, I know I'll sleep forever.

A shattered subconscious in a broken earthly shell.

End