Tonight I Sleep
The room is strange and these sheets are crisp and new. The room is filled with shadowy boxes and city light is on the other side of the shade. I am tired from this long journey, but my head is clear. It is a clarity I have never known. And everything makes sense now because everything is new. Their ghosts float around in my head, but they are not real and they're fading fast. So I sleep. And it is easier than I have slept since I can remember. This is my brave new world. Are there dreams? I do not know. I cannot remember. All I know is that the sleep is cool and slippery, delicious and deep. It wraps around me and holds me in ways I know it never have before. And if I die before I wake, I know I can meet whatever waits for me with peace in my soul and mind. That I will be unafraid of the shadows that once crossed my heart, that trapped me with no exit. They are all gone. So I sleep, and it is good and I am good. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.... all good children go to Heaven.
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