Pray The Truth Poem by Barry Middleton

in the twelfth hour
sleep captures me
and there I pray
to all indifference

there I force myself
to take a deeper breath
to find hidden strength
to tap the universe

I cannot lie in prayer
I may curse with rage
for an elusive answer
or a fool's empty plan

peace and sleep come
illusion's procession
of the dead and dying
haunt dark shadows

I wait to join them
in time's unknown
free of all deception
in that dreaming place