Night Dreams

for Nosheen Irfan You know the Night contains all of your dreams. She gathers them into a place of safety, where they curl together with other dreams and bide their time. A thick hedge of sleeping vines and wide-awake roses hides them from nightmares. The steady red gaze of owls watches over them, and the moon spreads her serene glow over their readiness. The Night gives a signal only one dream knows, that dream rises and enters your sleeping mind, soothing, rewarding, refreshing it. Then the dream returns unerringly to its dream chamber. You know our minds only borrow this delight from the generosity of the Night. What apt response can we make but to love the Night?