clasping small spears and shields

advance and retire

 

(beneath my eyelids

the field of sleep densely spreads)

strike/struck  strike/struck  strike/struck

dissipating like dust

 

what’s going on?

where did you come from?

no clue

let’s become cloud  holding hands

let’s disappear as one

like that  like that   like that 

sleep’s flock of cloud

 

suddenly hrmph!

snorting

as the body jerks

 

the field of sleep breaks

the soldiers disappear

that spider’s thread of sleep is torn

 

towards the field of sleep  again

nearing  slipping 

I call through

spider’s thread  spider’s thread  spider’s thread

 

to sleep’s soldiers 

who will one day seize me for eternity