There’s knowledge
in the world
for only
the captive

Insight
on the other
hand
prescient to roam

No ceiling
to happiness
but a floor
to sorrow

Direction
a vagrant
that goes
where it goes

Spoken
in cadence
our oaths
are rechanted

Carrying
voices
through moments
on loan

Traveling
together
in blind
expectation

Questions
awaiting
in freedoms
—unknown

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)