My song slips from my heart into the words on this paper You start to unfurl them like threads curling around your ego Dreams drift from pages into eyelids Taking their time to remind us that we are impermanent visitors We enter and rise to the sound of a fire burning Turning morning into night and lightning into thunder In slumber we shudder at the angels that take no prisoners Gifts and poison all have their necessary reasons As everything is already a part of every other being