It is an unsung hero indeed,
but my praises go to a deep rest.
To unwind and to heal
after a journey of passages
both narrow and steep;
to succumb to the caress
and gentle kiss of nothingness,
now recharged, reawakened and renewed.
There are glories and victories
celebrated, feast upon feast,
with joyful yells that last for ages,
but everlasting is the silence
and its dimful sound
when one is ready to call it quits
and the word “Enough” is all that matters.
To let the senseless obscurity
fix what has been broken
and to let it guide us
through the lens of oniric repair,
sometimes through the magic of fantasy
and others through irrational despair.
Day after day we aim to reach higher
but night after night we hope to sink lower,
for in darkness we regenerate
to endure the world and the ordeals it berates.
In short,
we praise the wonders of rest
as we aim torwards the next test.