Artist:  Michael Wheelan

I Sleep to Dream
By: JoAnna Martin

I look to the sky
and I wonder why,
why am I here?
Nobody hears me.
Nobody cares.
I sleep to dream
about my secret paradise-
a place where there
is no feeling,
no emotion,
no pain.
All is quiet
but for my thoughts.
My thoughts are free to wander
wherever they please
without worry of getting lost
or being discovered.
I don't have to sneak
through the shadows here.
I feel the secrets I keep inside
painlessly escape.
There is no one here to find me out.
I am alone.
It feels good to be free
and to be what I am,
not what I'm supposed to be.
To make my dream reality,
all I have to do is
reach for the sky,
and to the world
say "Good-bye."


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