Interlude: I Dream This Dream in Which My Body Is My Own - Priests

I am trying to find a form for all of these feelings

One day, when I do, I will crack my head open

And pour the hot ore of my being into this mold

And when it has cooled, and my body is empty and dead

It will remain, out there in the world

Hard and clear and legible and unambiguous

I dream this dream in which my body is my own

A thing I made, a thing with meaning, a meaning I have created

A meaning under my own control, even after I am dead

I have this dream over and over again

I re-dream it daily in cumulative iterations

With every step, every hit, every stroke, every word

And with each movement

It recedes further and further into the horizon