A little nook Pillows shaped into a shell almost as if the walls of a peanut Enough to hide a full grown person A fortress of sorts , a safe haven A shield to the gripping fingers of a days turmoil A place to burrow A linen cocoon The threshold of your dreams A " foxhole" Nestled away from the outside world Covers up to my neck I let the walls envelop me I close my eyes and immerse my being into this nocturnal abyss And fool myself into being safe from my conscious As I drift myself off to sleep In my own little dream capsule Forged in the face of the comforters and braced by the walls of the pillows Until the paddles of dawn row their way through the moat of now " yesterday's " perils. At least for the night I was behind my linen walls. Enveloped in a shroud uninhabited thought With the hopes of a painless sleep ........