I wasn’t sleeping,
I just felt
the essence
the touch
of self.

Individuality grasps me firmly,
Godhead washes over me,
until his voice awoke me.

He asked if I was sleeping,
I said no, man, I’m just immersing myself into myself.

He told me, it’s good to dream,

I said yeah, good to dream at night
Daysleep need not be so surrealistic
not so visceral
just a cerebral
coming to.

In either case, he said, it’s good to dream.

I called the words of Shannon Hoon, the Blind Melon:
“Keep on dreamin’ boy cuz when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die…”

He told me, “I stopped dreaming long ago.
I say it is good to dream only because I think it is good advice to give.”