Sunday, August 5, 2007

The Sweetest Sleep

Enveloping, invisible heat
emanates from wood-burning stove
soothes, sedates mind and body
into meditative state

while ensconced on sofa or cot
hypnotized by black box warmth
mind untethers, floats, escapes
ascending to the sweetest sleep

perhaps presaging eternal rest
not like nightly sleeping spells
riven with subliminal struggles
helping unravel daytime life

just an agreeable amnesia
no memory with any texture
unremembered glimpse of nirvana
suffused with ambrosial promise

gentle return to wakefulness
the mind’s cleared of its clutter
no weariness from anxious dreams
just refreshed, contented being.

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