ART MUSIC POETRY

The Poetry of Michael Langston


(13) ON AWAKENING ONE MORNING

I think I could lie and sleep forever,
Forsake the world and its light of day,
And enter upon the darkness of an eternal night;
Let the sounds of wakefulness at last disappear
Till only silence remains;
And consciousness gone and thought passed away,
Fall into the abyss of a deepening sleep...
Until sleep becomes as death;
Existence extinguished, all life put out,
Become the nothingness from which all things arose
And to which everything must pass:
  To awake no more to see
  The glaring light of another day.


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