Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.-Edgar Allan Poe

But with what wonder has the season comeIts treasure lies in earthen shipsthat carry dreams across the foam.And how your memory of Sarah rapesthe fleshly heart that once bore scenesnow veiled in smoky stains of tearsit cries as on its crutches leansand ever fills itself with fears.Be born anew to taste the skyLay waste cocoon and upwind fly.

She came out of sleep like a thunderclapwaking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldnt remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.

The first step is the hardest in every journey of dreams. There is nothing else to fear unto whosoever has shown the tenacity to begin because once having started the hardest part of the mission is the one lying behind.

Sometimes monsters are tired of sleeping under your bed so they climb up into your head.

If every day you are not paying the price to make your dreams come true then your everyday is a price that you are paying to stop your dreams coming true.

I will see every thing I dream to see I will have every thing I dream to have.But I fear that once I have attained all of my dreamsThat all of my nightmares will follow.

Theres folly in her stridethats the rumorjustified by liesIve seen her up closebeneath the sheetsand sometime during the summershe was mine for a few sweet months in the falland parts of December To get to the heart of this unsolvable equation one must first become familiar with the physical emotional and immaterial makeup as to what constitutes both war and peace. I found her looking through a windowthe same window Id been looking throughShe smiled and her eyes never falteredthis folly was a crime The very essence of war is destructive though throughout the years utilized as a means of creating peace such an equation might seem paradoxical to the untrained eye. Some might say using evil to defeat evil is counterproductive and gives more meaning to the word futile. Others like Edmund Burke would argue that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing. She had an identity I could identify withsomething my fingertips could caress in the night There is such a limitless landscape within the mind no two minds are alike. And this is why as a race we will forever be at war with each other.What constitutes peace is in the mind of the beholder. Have you heard the argumentThis displacement of men and womenand women and menthe minds we all havethe beliefs we all shareSlipping inside of usthoughts and religions and bodiesall bare Without darkness there can be no lighthe once said. To demonstrate this theory during one of his seminars he held a piece of white chalk and drew a line down the center of a blackboard. Explaining that without the blackness of the board the white line would be invisible. When she leftshe kissed with eyes openI knew this because Id done the sameSometimes we saw eye to eye like thatVery brieflyshe considered an apotheosisa synthesisa rendering of her follyinto solidarity To believe that a world-wide lay down of arms is possible however is the delusion of the pacifist the dream of the optimist and the joke of the realist. Diplomacy only goes so far and in spite of our efforts to fight with words- there are times when drawing swords of a very different nature are surely called for. Experiencing the subsequent sunriseinhaling and drinkingbreaking mirrors and regurgitatingjust to start againall in allI was just another gash in the bark Plato once saidOnly the dead have seen the end of war. Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind only with the death of such will come the end of the bloodshed. Though this may be a fairly realistic view of such an issue perhaps there is an optimistic outlook on the horizon. Not every sword is double edged but every coin is double sided. Leaving town and throwing shit out the windowdrinking boroughs and borrowing spare changeI glimpsed the rear view mirrorstole a glimpse reallyIve believed in looking back for a whileit helps to have one last viewa reminder in case one ever decides to rebelin the event the self regressesand makes the declaration of devastationonce more Thus if we wish to eliminate the threat of war today- complete human annihilation may be called for.

Though there is much we still want there is much we already have and that means we have much to lose as well. Its that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams because the biggest dreams require the most risk.

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.