Sleep–
sweet metaphor for death.
Some say
we use our metaphors
to keep the world at bay,
to dull the edge of life's cutting realities. 

I say
metaphor
strips illusion from reality,
revealing the Core beneath.

Death is sleep,
from which we awaken
beyond illusion, beyond reality.

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.