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"To Sleep, Perchance to Dream"
Something is wrong. I remember waking up this morning in a land where the sun never seems to fully rise or set. The sky is always gray — not the soft gray of morning, nor the peaceful gray of evening, but a chilly, restless twilight that blurs every image. Shadows have no direction. Voices have no source. And my own footsteps sound as though they belong to someone else.
Was it just this morning, or have I always lived in the twilight of a world without contrast, without clarity, without meaning? A world without a path?
As I wander through the dimness, I notice something strange: a faint line of brightness on the horizon, so thin I wonder if I am only imagining it. It isn't a beam or a blaze — just a suggestion of light, like the memory of a sunrise I have never seen. And the moment I turn toward it, the twilight around me shifts. The shadows behind me deepen, and the way ahead grows slightly clearer. For the first time, I can see a real path.
As I walk, the gray thins. The air warms. The world gains shape. I begin to see the outlines of trees, the contours of hills, the shimmer of dew on the grass. Nothing is fully illuminated, but everything hints at what it could become.
And as I walk, I pass others wandering in the fog. Some notice the direction I am going and ask, "Why walk toward a light you cannot reach?" Others warn, "The twilight is safer. At least here, nothing is demanded of you." Still others scoff, "There is no light. It is only your imagination."
But I keep walking, because something in me recognizes the light — not with my eyes, but with my soul. It is as though the light knows me, and my turning toward it is simply an answer. The closer I come, the more the twilight behind me reveals its true nature. What I thought was inevitable grayness is actually the shadow of my own separation — a dimness that settled over my heart long before it settled over the land — a shadow now behind me instead of before me.
At last, I reach the crest of a small hill. And there, breaking the horizon, is the dawn — not a color, not a glow, but a Presence. A radiance that does not merely illuminate the world but defines it.
The Light speaks without sound: "Walk with Me, and you will not walk in darkness. For I am the dawn you have been seeking, and the day your heart was made for."
In that moment, I understand: the twilight was never the world's true condition. It was mine. So I step forward into the growing light of day. And as I walk with the Light, the world around me comes alive with meaning. Colors return. Contours sharpen. Even the trees whisper truths I had never heard in the fog.
And though the twilight still lingers behind me, it no longer holds power over me. For once a man has seen the dawn, he can never again mistake the gray for the truth.
What's this? I feel the bed beneath me, and fresh morning air coming through an open window, riding on a sunbeam. Was it just a dream?
No, not just a dream — a revelation!
