chill breeze flowing
through open windows
and everyone sleeping
in this sleeping house
my own mind slumbers
too
and i wonder if it
will ever wake
There are more times of late when I feel more simulacrum than person. This is one of those times, where I am quite content in not moving forward if only this moment could linger. Stop the simulation, let me sleepy-slumber with late summer (or early autumn, I suppose) on the morn, windows open, bare legs cold, the faint bird chirps without rhythm or meaning, the highway drone from a few miles away. Coffee mug in hand, ignoring the turmoil in the news. Watching cats watch whatever and not feeling too much pain in the joints until I move.
I could be that simulacrum, my brain says — for a while longer. Record and set to repeat. I’m tired of most everything else. Add a section when I lay atop my bedding and sleepwalk in half-remembered dreams, maybe program a section where I catch chill and nest underneath too. What about a companion? While a nice thought, I’m not sure such scenes allow for companionship. The slumbering simulacrum seems a solitary affair, doesn’t it? Or maybe… but no. We’ll leave that for the dreaming this simulacrum might have.
If it were possible to have this half-dream state of existing, I might even stop writing. It would be my gift to the world.
Hush now. I feel another dream.
14 responses to “slumber”
Mmmm. Taste of autumn in the air.
This is one of those ideal days that are good days for just forgetting about being an adult.
I know it can be hard to believe, but you deserve that🙂
No way, man! It’s not allowed!
Don’t even think of stopping writing!
Yes, it’s a good feeling to be in a moment like that. For once everything feels right and in place, and change is both unnecessary and unwanted. If only such moments lasted.
Excellent write, Michael.
As the wise guy said, this too shall pass. After following up on a continent I have for the day, i should go and sit in the moment…
🙂
I got to admit, I could use a break too. Tune out. And let what happens happen. But I don’t think you should stop writing!
Unfortunately, the weekend send to have other plans. 😂. No break from the chaos for ANYONE!
I’m going through the sleepiness. I sleep a LOT lately, but I’m thinking I probably just need to right now so I’m not really fighting it. Maybe it’s the seasonal transition for me. I won’t worry about it for now. 🙂
Sleep is something that I’ve been lacking on for so long that I wish I could just sleep for a few days straight. If things stay quiet at work this week, I might make it a long weekend and see what happens 🙂
I absolutely love this. Both the poem and the prose afterwards, together. It’s something I feel deep in my bones.
Thank you Tara. 💙
It’s a dreamy kind of day around here. I’m almost resentful of having to go back to work tomorrow. I’d rather sleepwalk in half-dream, given my druthers.
You and me both.