Slip into a dream

Slip into a dream

Fall into a rabbit hole

Deeply down

Spiraling through the layers

Dividing waking and sleeping

Drop off the edge

Of consciousness

Into a netherworld

Of partially realised possibilities

Where frightening fantasies

Float untethered

By the shackles of reality

They are too restrictive

For free association

To flourish

With impunity

Accountability is a discovery

Waiting to happen

In the right hands

The mind’s eye

Can be a mirror held up

Against the world

And with its distortion

Turned inside out

It will bring a new creation

Closer to the surface

With every ripple

The fabric of life

Is unpicked

Until, come the end

We drop right off

The edge of the known world

Landing in the lap

Of the gods

Refreshed

From nothing more mundane

Than an afternoon of

Catnaps.