The Gravity of Sleep

The Gravity of Sleep
Originally uploaded by Archer Braun.

What dark art pulls my head toward the pillow, while my heart still pumps thundering blood?

Where will the maps of midnight lead me, or will there be only the constant hiss of static, the sibilance of a digital dream?

With every tick of the clock, another heartbeat lost...another moment flickering away.

Each lonely tap echoes with flat finality, while electric mists gather on the lonely moonlit metaverse.

A chill makes its way through the bundled layers of the traveller's cloak and his pace is quickened as the fog begins to rise.

And unseen, she watches, smiling at a rustling in the hedgerow..