Somnia

Prologue

"Lie down, and I will show you what the universe is made of." - Psyche Torok

I.

My neck
To the teeth
Of the night
My life
To her thirst

My skin pierced
My veins open
She drinks me
Down

She licks her
Blood-red lips

II.

In her eternity
a brief me
In her darkness
a tiny spark
Dreams night
holds back light

III.

Life returns, slowly, rosy-fingered.
Blinking regrets, hopes dashed by alarm.
Stretching, rising, slowly shedding
All the night's ephemeral gifts.

She is gone.
I long... but not for long.
My eyes
open at last.
Never would have been too fast.

Epilogue

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death." - Thomas Wolfe