Inspired by ten words

In Sleep

A break from reality,

your mind stumbling over the flood of events

harboured in your head.

Eyes closed and brain open

like a sponge that holds memories,

itching to be cut open, for them to pour -

shivering -

onto your slumbering body.

In these reveries, sheets can feel like silk,

willing you to rest;

or like choking seaweed, grasping for you,

defenceless and alone.

They bend around your skull

repeating and distorting,

until you submit and bow to honesty.

Each night this process starts

uncontrollable and ever-changing.

Then a faint light breaks the curtain -

and saves you from yourself.