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I’m looking for big times,
When the singing gets good,
And the chalice spills over,
And I gape sober, my mouth a big black hole.
I seek the tendrils of smoke,
In meditation, looking for shadows,
Looking for ghosts,
I find nothing and nothing.
The race gets faster,
I feel above ecstasy,
like the sky splits open,
And I mix darkness and light.
Please find me there,
In forests of trees,
Of dreams and nightmares
And finally, I crown you king.
Another new day,
Another new cycle,
Why sleep when I can stay awake,
And Master of passions and illusions,
And God of my own delusions choose,
My own, my kingdom in heaven.
When the singing gets good,
And the chalice spills over,
And I gape sober, my mouth a big black hole.
I seek the tendrils of smoke,
In meditation, looking for shadows,
Looking for ghosts,
I find nothing and nothing.
The race gets faster,
I feel above ecstasy,
like the sky splits open,
And I mix darkness and light.
Please find me there,
In forests of trees,
Of dreams and nightmares
And finally, I crown you king.
Another new day,
Another new cycle,
Why sleep when I can stay awake,
And Master of passions and illusions,
And God of my own delusions choose,
My own, my kingdom in heaven.
Let me know what you think!?
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Right! I terms of lucid dreaming this makes a lot of sense. The line 'why sleep when I can stay awake' is a near direct reference to it, I feel.
The first stanza I interpret to mean a desire for excitement. The chalice spilling over seems to depict abundance or perhaps excess, while I take the gaping mouth to mean that the speaker can't get enough of it.
The second stanza seems to mean a search for the fantastical, something more than this reality, but it seems that the speaker could not find it in the depths of meditation, perhaps leading to him turning to the dreamworld?
The third stanza reminds me somewhat of 'Through the looking glass' where the queen keeps running faster and faster. I feel that the speaker has manged to enter the dreamworld here and is elated by it. The sky splitting open and mixing light and dark could refer to the reality of the dreamworld being easily bent or manipulated. I feel this is reinforced through 'mixing darkness and light' since in the real world darkness is the absence of light, and light drives away darkness. Maybe it also means that through the darkness of sleep, the speaker now sees true light.
The fourth stanza seems to me to depict the speaker becoming the master of his dreams and finally being able to control them. Forests of trees, of dreams of nightmares seems to indicate many dreams in clusters, like the speaker is dreaming many in one night. The request 'Please find me there' raises questions: who is supposed to find him? Why does he wish to be found? How can someone find him in a dream?
The last stanza I interpret to be the speaker reveling in his new-found freedom and almost becoming drunk on the power of being the master of his own world. And yet, the speaker remains aware that it's only dreams by mentioning 'Illusions' and 'Delusions'
I hope any of this is actually close to what you intended, since I am basing literally all of my assumptions the assumption that this poem is about lucid dreaming
The first stanza I interpret to mean a desire for excitement. The chalice spilling over seems to depict abundance or perhaps excess, while I take the gaping mouth to mean that the speaker can't get enough of it.
The second stanza seems to mean a search for the fantastical, something more than this reality, but it seems that the speaker could not find it in the depths of meditation, perhaps leading to him turning to the dreamworld?
The third stanza reminds me somewhat of 'Through the looking glass' where the queen keeps running faster and faster. I feel that the speaker has manged to enter the dreamworld here and is elated by it. The sky splitting open and mixing light and dark could refer to the reality of the dreamworld being easily bent or manipulated. I feel this is reinforced through 'mixing darkness and light' since in the real world darkness is the absence of light, and light drives away darkness. Maybe it also means that through the darkness of sleep, the speaker now sees true light.
The fourth stanza seems to me to depict the speaker becoming the master of his dreams and finally being able to control them. Forests of trees, of dreams of nightmares seems to indicate many dreams in clusters, like the speaker is dreaming many in one night. The request 'Please find me there' raises questions: who is supposed to find him? Why does he wish to be found? How can someone find him in a dream?
The last stanza I interpret to be the speaker reveling in his new-found freedom and almost becoming drunk on the power of being the master of his own world. And yet, the speaker remains aware that it's only dreams by mentioning 'Illusions' and 'Delusions'
I hope any of this is actually close to what you intended, since I am basing literally all of my assumptions the assumption that this poem is about lucid dreaming