Dedicated to Elaina Lene ~ 

(A virtual friend from www.pathetic.com)

Perpetually logged on, eyes on the screen

Elaina meanders in virtual universes

Inhabited by imaginary beings ~

Some have a photo face, most don’t have even that ~

Elaina beautiful brooding pensively on the profile

Desperately knocks on the letters of the keyboard ~

Messages reach the virtual beings in evanescent universes ~

Engulfed day and night, in absurd half wakefulness,

Sleep evades Elaina as a butterfly evades a child’s eager hand,

The ambience of insomnia pervades Elaina

An invisible ghost on a lonely isle ~

I recognize Elaina’s distant presence, a piercing ancient memory

Feel the vast heaviness of Elaina’s drooping eyelids,

Shadow of Elaina’s gloomy wandering presence ~

A flaming goddess in penance, in an eternal mythogram

Inviting the delight of soma of great repose ~

I cannot fathom my being, feeling the agony

Of Elaina’s eyes that refuse to close, stay still ~

Far away in another niche of earthy cosmos

Elaina engulfed in ethereal light ~

I say, “Elaina your insomnia hurts me,

A thousand piercing nails all over ~

Open the Bible ~ Read the Psalms ~

Just say, ‘Jesus let me sleep’ ~

You will see sleep invade Elaina,

A luminous tender vastness,

An absolute mother, in glorious self-evidence” ~

Elaina’s delicate fingers scribbling knocking letters

To imaginary beings, grows sweetly tired

Omnipresent delight of sleep envelopes

Elaina, a feather cloak in breeze ~

Elaina’s eyes flutter eager to close this little world

Elaina spreads herself an ageless parable

In ether beneath a spray of flowering stars ~

Elaina gently gently melts into sleeping grace

Elaina wanders eager into miracle terrains of

Immaculate dreams ~ In sacred union with Christos

In absolute sleep, glorious Elaina breathes

The incandescent rhythm of the universe,

The primal breath of god, an ageless infant in eternity’s bosom ~

Note ~

Soma ~ Roughly, “The State Of Blissful Union With The Infinite”