POETRY

The Sleeper Must Awaken

A response to “One-liners from your reading”

A line taken from Frank Herbert’s Dune.

A couple of lines from a book that has reverberated throughout influence during my life.

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken”.

This has been a driving force in decisions made, dealing with fear of the unknown, a fear of falling asleep.

Changing life style’s, jobs, town’s, city’s and countries without the comfort of an assured outcome has driven me through apathy.

I’m not a gambling man; however, I choose not to live in the comfort zone of an assured lifestyle and risk going to sleep.

James G Brennan 2021.

Thank you Trisha Traughber for this prompt, “One-liners from your reading”. Read Trishas prompt and words of inspiration here. Do feel free to join in this prompt, it’s well worth a ponder.

Thank you as always, Trisha Traughber for giving my words a platform. 🙏 Thank you all for reading and your precious time. Always. J. 🙏✨