I sleep as if I haven’t been forgiven. My fingers grab onto the hem of my shirt like even in my sleep, I need to prove to something I’m real. My lamp casts this golden glow across my clean clothes on the floor and my dog who just likes to stare at me. Unguarded and undone. I wish I could whisper to the sleep gods to let me forget how tired I am of just being. But I can’t. I believe life is beautiful in the eye of the beholder. Sleep doesn’t have to be sacred, I chose to think of it like that. I wouldn’t want to make myself dread everything. I’m strong enough to stand anything.
I press the side of my face to my once comfortable pillow and sigh to the view of my half open door.
And that’s when I saw her, she’s blue and hazy with three foggy eyes like clouds. Skin crystallized in broken stars just like seashells. Four arms drenched in gold jewelry and a crown embedded with an ocean of milk.
She told me I didn’t have to apologize for anything and dug me deep into the soils of the earth. I had caught something beautiful Raindrops and laughter. She said the sound of waves is the sound of creation and vulnerability. “Destroy ego and illusion” when I asked about its motive. Pure transcendence 🤲🐚💤