My Peace

By Aleah Dye

Sleep is an untamed 
tangle of wildflowers
a beautiful calling
impossible to reach 
the middle of
without your hands
your arms 
your breathy I love you 
before
we find rest
on each other’s 
shoulders
and pillows
kicking blankets
and touching
toes

Aleah Dye (she/her) primarily writes poetry, tending towards topics of morbidity, love, social justice, and philosophy. She is dreadfully afraid of imperfection and spiders, in no particular order. She has a one-eyed cat named Ivy and a one-track-minded (food!) cat named Rosebud. Aleah hopes to make hearts grow three sizes with her words. She is a 2020 Sundress Publications Best of the Net nominee. Read her latest work via Door Is A Jar Magazine, perhappened mag, and mineral lit mag. Follow her @bearsbeetspoet on Twitter.