The Meaning of Sleep

Even when I write it down

I'll still be found

Nosing through the garbage

Listening for the sound

Of water

Flowing like a fountain

So deep

Do I understand the meaning of sleep

Falling from the highest cliff

Waiting for the lift

Of the wind in my wings

I was scared stiff

Of the water

Never hit the bottom

So deep

In my wildest dreams

Do I understand the meaning of sleep

Limping round a carousel

Drunken rancid smell

The clown in my dream

Thirsty for a swill

Of water

Never wake the baby from sleep

'Til I wake up with my hands in prayer

Salt upon the air

Shoreline in the distance

Calling from somewhere

Through water

Tearing through the silence so deep

The truth runs clearer in a dream

Than all the waking world can tell

So I drink from delusive streams

'Til beyond the veil I see

The meaning of sleep

Even when I write it down

Falling from the highest cliff

Running round a carousel

Waking with my hands in prayer