A Season to Sleep

I need a season to sleep

to dream that I didn’t set foot on the pitch

to curtsy

I need a stepping stone to start from

to rise and shine

to wake the heart

I need a reason to plead

for the right to unlearn

to forget and be forgotten

I need a saltless scream

to be swallowed by the waves

to hush

I need to scheme new towers

to overtop the old

to grow

I need a place to water down

the ocean of history

to yield

I need to dethrone the player

to mingle with the ground

to anchor

I need a season to sleep

a stepping stone

a reason to plead

a saltless scream

new towers to scheme

a place to water down

a throne to dethrone

I need to sleep

“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children built. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” ~ Genesis 11:1-9