I resurface
Into the conscious haze
With the echoing of kind sentiments
Dancing here and there

They fluctuate
Muttering
Garbled and muffled
Aligned with a few solid words
To court my ragged mind back to sleep

Fully submerged
I hang close
Fastened to the joys of restless dreams

The abundant colors
Flush out all sorrow
As I swirl with the haven
Meshed with each leaning illusion

Delirium subsides briefly
For the ominous fear of crowning
Into the prison of my earth bound flesh
Brittle, lifeless and obscene

The sounds are still so obscure
Foreign to my sleeping earlobes
As I free fall backwards into slumber
Driven by the rise of reckless thoughts

It never fails to shatter
With a firm knock at my door
Tearing me away from the choke hold of rest
Into the droning blare of existence

The firmest soil I’ve grown to deplore
With each hour spent
In the boundless pursuit of rest