Lying in conscious abandon I challenge the barrier of sleep While my breaths dance with the moon My body gets rigid Immobile Dead at touch Between these two layers of being My mind stands awake And escapes the flesh My eyes tremble While the third one Fools all senses and leads I see through now And the outside walk begins Being weightless terrifies Floating around these walls I’m forced to trust new perceptions Just a gold spiderweb Attaches me to the life I know My mortal self Lying pale Seems futile from above Obstacles are no more I pass through the doors of my knowledge Memories transfigure in landscapes Voices are long stripes of sound Movements get traced in the air Time moves slow Scanned by a distant heartbeat I sense the fear of not returning back And I keep ignoring it A room appears An old man blurs out from the walls I aim in his direction When the floor opens up Gravity claims its power back A black void eats me down In free fall I hear life calling my name Fighting my return I keep climbing up Shouting back all my strength Movements stab my confidence Everything I touch turns my spirit down Between two tearing forces my will raises his chin And blind from fear I aim to the old man towering above Tears flow through my disfigured self I fight against my conscience’s weight Slow like mountain corrosion With the last of my breath I get to his face When eyes meet eyes My forehead implodes like crystal While my mouth erupts rocks and soil Drained out I abandon myself in this limbo I now float again Life holds me close Eating up my strained will Like a bird in a storm I open my wings and let go Defeated by my same power I wake up in myself Lying in unconscious disorder I’ll stand again