I dreamt they invented a new solution for pain

and called it sleep.

I said I want a double dose, want it full and peaceful and deep.

I don't want to wake again I said for an age

and rolled into bed.

I drifted and dozed and floated free

but could only live in my head.

A quiet place with the lights turned down but not

a thing I could see,

nor touch with my empty but reaching hands,

this new unfeeling me.

Not good enough! I cried to the cosmos, the uni

verse, the world.

And for my dreaming ingratitude back
into wakeful pain I was hurled.