Signatures.
As I settle at last to unsettled sleep
just behind the thinnest of veils
and in dreamy state half-revealed
imagination begins to invade.
Face shapes appearing create shift
in recognition as mem\'ry relates
and I gaze at defeat until listless
wakening fades and doze obeys.
Negative wins but surrender revives
and from low state comes freedom
if signatures rise unbidden to write
settled on a mind needing peace.