Night Dreams...
I was tired last evening, so I went to bed early- about 9:30- and fell quickly into a deep sleep. I became caught up in a dream and I abruptly awoke at 12:30a.m. with an image clearly in my mind... a phrase which had come from I-know-not-where but which would not let me rest until I had put it down on paper, lest it be forgotten by morning. And so I grabbed my journal and my pen and wrote... and the phrase turned into complete thoughts and the thoughts turned into verses...and what emerged in the wee hours of Sunday morning were these lines... star light, star bright... I dreamed myself among the stars soaring through space weightless yet still embodied still myself my head thrown back in utter joy as, freely borne, I saw in the Milky Way a light-filled path to where? Eternity? ...