She sleeps

An oasis of peacefulness amidst the hum

The steady ebb and flow of conversation

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She dreams

Building fantastic castles in the air

Products of an exhausted sense of reality and a frustrated imagination

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She walks in the deep dark quiet of slumber

A place where pigs can fly and children go skating on the sun

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She wanders in the realm of possibilities

Looking for a path to take her where she wants to go

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She rides a rainbow to the stars

Slides home on a moonbeam

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Watching the busy busy business of life going on around her

She is divorced from earthbound limits

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She wakes and meets reality

Stern monarch of fact and all that is

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She declares independence

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She dreams…

And breaks the chains of plausibility

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She flies