Sucker-punch Sleep

I dicker with the Sandman

On the edge of sleep

But his brother, Morpheus

Knocks me off my feet

I F A L L... away

Down sweet dream's reef

Where my mind makes movies

For my inner eye's treat

While all the while my heart

Makes neat

An accounting

Which my spirit seeks

-What I did

-What I felt

-What I learned

A summing of the things

I built and burned

As I braved strong currents

Of peopled shoal

All bit by bit to grow my soul

Till time grows short

For monologue's retort

Desire and Delirium

Release my mind

As hand over hand, I climb

Up from the deep keep

Of sucker-punched sleep

To meet another day...

-DeRicki