I don't chase sleep Sleep doesn't chase me, Doesn't even half-two; Sleep has/is/will have Non-Existed since before My body joined the Clock- Work Greyness that is (Time) Clicking away to E Turn It E, And E; It: Returning back to... Mysteries are born, die, Re-emerge, when our Senses draw in, rescued From the Wake of the Ship that Sleep is
(Some Pronoun) Has to Pretend to Sleep The conscious Abstract Of being slightly more Vulnerable than when We were unremembered Babies, crawlers, toddling the Dimly-Perceived Tightrope When we first begin to remember Night Horse-Mares Tromping and galloping Leaving woven dreamprints To keep our Id from forgetting To tell us to breathe, water, and feed Whatever the Ego and Superego Allow/Disallow
Time is there, in sleep, but Not of the clockwork count- Down that is carnal fleshly Life resetting in the same way the Terminator says "I won't be back, I won't leave, I am always here," like Past grudgingly releasing Its soft, sharp claws, Fading, Fading twilight into the ever- Wide arms of darkness
Bad dreams, good dreams, Balancing our warring survivalist Self with the calm wakefulness When all three the fulcrum Of our mind arriving Ten Minutes before the Two Others
Sleep gives way from the Inert Vulnerable To the Alert Unvulnerable; Sleep is to Consciousness As Death is to Life