Sleep Big

Original song by Austin C. Pruett

Lyrics from Blake Carlson's "This National Park" (a book of poetry, 2019)

Sleep Big, dream wide.
People to be afraid about
Aren’t the ones you’ll meet tonight

Of the old songs you'll sing until dawn.
Quiet in the darkening rattle,
Quiet in the darkening.

Those people in the next life.
Those people of the problem;
Came all this way to get afraid again.

You wanted mindfullness.
You got hung around simple blades of respect.
Getting old enough to still forgive the past.
Getting old enough to still forgive.

Dream across each timeline;
Meet the widest wisest kinds.
Your self at each threshold
Wondering what step will take when.