Hesed

when I lay down to sleep

how should I know that I will wake?

and yet, I believe so

never have I feared that strange darkness

the circus of arcane dreams;

how jealous I am of my sleeping self,

that I should trust the world to be as it was

when I left it

I would that I could find such a thing

sober

that I didn’t need to question

and for which I could willfully submit

even the silliest of dreams.

---

a somnolent savant.