My Contribution to Poetry Month 2022
I nearly let poetry month get away this year, but I still have 4.5 hours before it ends. Below is my contribution :-) .
Perchance to Dream
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Trying to concentrate on nothing,
To dissolve into the blackness behind my closed eyes,
I find that nothing is something --
Without image or sound or meaning.
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I am enveloped in the emptiness,
Absorbed in the thought of thoughtlessness,
Where opposites collide
And inaction is a conscious effort.
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Reaching into darkness for that lost part of me,
I am somehow lost in the reach.
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Sleep invades my mind.
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The light is dead.
And my soul sings
To the wordless accompaniment
Of forgotten memories.
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c. Melissa Rooney