Why Is It So Hard To Wake Up?

The nightmare wraps

within the ordinary

dreams of night,

which in turn appear

wrapped in the dream

of waking, filled

with the silt

of endless daydreams

and ho-hum anxieties

with which we manage

to terrorize ourselves.

No one wakes up fully,

but the dream of fully

waking can make

a temporary buddha

of anyone sane enough

to realize the dream

of not really

dreaming any

more than necessary

any

more.