To Escape a Planet

and we cry in our dreams
so we die in our sleep
we sleep so fitful, so free
and the air all around us
the world like gossamer
the sky like cerulean
the universe like velvet
so we cry to be free
and we cry in our sleep
and we are lost to the sea
for the end of that which
none of us believed in, that which
was never real to
anyone, never real to
begin with