When you go to bed to sleep,
don’t right away fall away
but remain awake in some
meditative state enough
to refrain from unconscious
sway . . . then you may soon enough
begin to feel relaxed but
not drowsy, not so lousy
that you have to close the eyes
altogether, so you leave
eyes ajar to stay alert
like Bert on Sesame Street.
If you can do just this much,
then you can close the eyes and
at once stay awake enough
to watch the mind wandering
wondering what the deal is . . .
do I shut down now or do
I go with the brain: remain
active and notice what’s next?
Remain passively active
just long enough to welcome
that first dream of the evening . . .
and if that does not wake you
up, just wait for waking down
where deep sleep shows you a corpse.
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