Sleeping in Colors by Susi Bocks

in dreams 
i recover from living
scenarios of longing present themselves
overshadowing the pain of real life

we can come back
to that which allows us to peak
even for a moment

with truth of conviction
we will succeed

it’s all we have in survival mode

Susi Bocks, writer/author/poet, has self-published two books – Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. She is the Editor of The Short of It. Bocks’ has works published in the anthologies Through The Looking Glass, As The World Burns, SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women, and various literary magazines. She was a Pushcart Prize Nominee in 2021. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com