The Edge Of Reality Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Every night
As I switch off the lights
My consciousness takes me far beyond reality
It's not a far off place
It's a place that's hidden in plain sight
The edge of reality is under our eyelids
It's from here that we find ourselves inside the cosmos of consciousness
All our known reality is paused and folded
Into tiny trinkets that are placed under our pillows
From here we are vaporized into the gravitational field of the mind
Where we find ourselves untangled from the present
In our nakedness we exist outside the fortified field of time and space
Pulled far beyond the comfort of our own homes
We are taken to the world of dreams
Where we find ourselves in the hands of unknown forces
Sometimes we are full of fear
Other times courage exposes our spirit
And we fight battles with both darkness and light
We soar above the clouds of existence
Free from our identities
Our ego and our attachments nowhere to be seen
We look under and beyond the carpet of existence
Only to find nothing but our true selves
Entangled on the strings of consciousness
We are swept back to ourselves
Where we finally open our eyes
Intoxicated with euphoria
Or sometimes full of confusion
As the sacred memory is broken down
To give way to our present reality

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