The Dreamer is Awake

The difference between a nightmare and a daydream

is not a question of fear or hour

but consent.

He can lay with her in the sleeping place

but if he is unwanted there

and makes night terrors of idle

fantasies

he had better run like hell

when the dreamer is awake.

See the thing to know

about the dreamer

is that she is mighty

and the monster never wins.