Book 2 Page 21
Do you know why you sleep?
Do you know why you sleep?
Do you know why for eight hour a day you fall in a heap?
This question has been queried since the beginning of time,
a question being asked by the lessor and greater of minds.
For every night we fall into dreams,
never knowing how this fit ‘into a larger scheme.’
Never knowing the dreaming link to ‘being awake.’
Yet every single night to this ‘process’ we partake.
Many religions draw parallels saying; “sleep is like a death,”
a place where one’s awake life ends but then goes onto the next.
Many people are fascinated by the wisdom dreams contain,
Claiming; “we enter in sleep ‘upon another plain.’”
Again and again every single night ‘off to sleep we go.’
Where is it?
What is it?
Do we really know?
© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au dominicj7@poetry.net.au 11/4/99