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Literature

When I Go To Sleep

"I am fallen through the midnight-not-dawning of a hundred thousand dreams, forever expanding into empty space. I am immersed in the still-air breathing of a million souls. I feel the enumeration of time in its grinding weight, and the thickening of my blood by the poison of age. I experience the tearing away of my flesh by the insatiable appetite of the long-frozen hands of Stygian night. There is no roaming free in the paradise of the dead-undead who have been swallowed up by the eternal night between. "In this gloom, the raw color of life is dispersed into myriad imagined beings; groping about in the darkness -- steep, unrelenting darknes