Complete And Simple Silence

I wrote this poem after awakening out of the dream state into the waking state.  I was dreaming of Silence; peaceful, potent, and empty.  I awoke from that dream, yet the potency and immediacy of my contact with this silence did not alter.  I continued to dream the dream while I was awake.

Only a few times in my life have I continued to dream a dream into my waking reality, and this dream was particularly profound because it was absolutely simple and had no content. An experience that exists identically in dreaming and waking consciousness and is experienced consistently through the transition of dreaming to waking states is quite rare for me...  I want to share it with you


Complete And Simple Silence

I woke up today
To a complete and simple Silence
It lacked any qualities
And was not defined
By an absence of any noise

Then I woke up again in my bed
The dreamer rising again into form
From dream state to waking state
From Absolute to I

And yet
As I was born again into this world
Complete and simple Silence remained
All pervasive
All sentient

I've never dreamed about the peace of Silence
But there it was
Complete and simple in Itself
So simple that I fell effortlessly through the gap
And all there was
Was Peace

The peace of no I