Rest

To the dreams I go

Where my sins will sow

As I sink beneath my shelter

Illusions, filled with wisdom

So dark it seems

Within them

I feel the air

Around me

So hard to breath

I cannot see

I sense the ground

Beneath me

No end in sight

For on my journey I am bound

On the face of nature I behold a great wall

The expanse immense, and I, humble at its feet

Gazing up high, light reaching down

Like stars so bright; through the darkest night

I hear tongues speak of many worlds

Flowing with the voices of a thousand words

I feel the shifting shapes on walls

And see the words these voices call

Words now growing louder, a thunderous proclamation

Their howls begin to blend, becoming

One thought in the darkness

Then nothing in the blackness

This outcry in the void was all then gone

Seated in the shadows

Surrounded in muteness

A dim light did wander

Breaking through the stillness

Silence interrupted

A sudden scream

He has been witness

With the lights guidance

I am led further into the earth

A smaller cavern opens up before me

Glowing faintly a solitary pool

Depressed deep within the stone

Into it, a great river does rush

Creating not a splash nor a stir

My hands reaching in, I draw out the water

Peering down with hands held fully open

The water takes shape, a womanly form

And I frightened by her piercing eyes

My hands open up and to the floor she does tumble

Screaming as she descended

Shattered on the floor; the pieces start to gather

The liquid once more flows into the pool

A great noise from behind me, it echoes through the cavern

It leads me away from the fountains glow

A small light bends shadows, I come across a candle

Upon a pillar of wax, A companion for the man beside it

Hideous to behold, skeleton draped in rags

With chisel in hand slowly carving words into the stone

Hollow were his eyes that gazed upon me as he turned

His monstrous shadow cast upon the wall withered

With curious inclination, I ask for his name

Grinning from under his great beard

And with a sparkle of light within his empty eyes

“Ancient “ he replies