That Place Between

I lie here

Adrift in a twilight world

Between wakefulness and sleep

My conscious self departs

For a destination, hidden,

In this place between.

This pseudo-world

Without form, without time.

My subconscious rises

Making all those things

So impossible, so incredible

In the full light of day

Live and thrive.

I see her.

She is the lioness,

Eyes blazing with resolve,

She hunts.

Searching, seeking out

She tracks me

Scornful, she laughs

Knowing through all the cosmos

There is nowhere to hide.

I am she, and she is me.

She knows my thoughts

Before I think them.

Her vision sees clearly

Across the void

Of time and space.

Spirals of galaxies,

Bright lights flashing by

She knows, she's certain.

The darkness closes around me

I am she, but... Who am I?

I see myself clearly...

The rabbit, the prey.

Frightened, I panic

Running through celestial clouds

In which lie hidden

Those things of my waking fears

Those truths I cannot face

Except in that place between.