A Quiet Sleep
Nighthawks, painting by Edward Hopper (1942); original work is owned by Art Institute of Chicago, image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. This work is considered to be in the public domain within the United States of America.
Daydream your future, and sleep through your fears
The wonderful nightmares of youth
The lights go out, the monsters are out
The vestigate of primitive id
The wakefull images of failure and shame, subdue the innocent dread
Alive in fear, tortured by death
One lives a nightmare beyond mere sleep
That Voice grows ever so clear
Dreams are fulfilled when nightmares scare only after Venus’s glorious glare
Pause and reflect on ego’s conceit, as by riddled with fallen stars
Dreams are lost with every grey hair, but nightmares still speak in thunderous jeers
Listen to truth and bear the good life, undisturbed by sleep and quiet
© 2020 W J Fitzgerald
