The Michael Toy

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at the vault of dreams


i am yova
i guard the vault of dreams
i know people imagine this place
as a fortress of two towers
one bathed in a light of white beyond words
one resonating with a subsonic dreadful gravity

know this

all dreams are beautiful here
some dreamers are so torn
infinitely thin razor edge of pain
shreds a delicate beauty
into a bleeding terror

some dreamers meet unprepared
a dream of beauty beyond them
and they simply remember it wrongly

i guard them all
against what, i do not know
in all my eons of vigilance
i've had no glimpse

my training, a thousand lifetimes of work
preparing me for this
to stand guard against the unknown
and still dream true

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