Swimming Through Solid Rock

What an outrageous feeling!

When we fall asleep
it may seem like we are leaving
density for lightness.

But dreams can feel so profoundly dense
and heavy
especially when we are swimming through solid rock.

Yet it is such a light feeling.
We can even attain speed.
The molecules just fall away.

We can still feel their heaviness,
their solid immovable mass.
But we feel something else, too.

We feel all the seemingly infinite
emptiness between the molecules
that provides us with little resistance.

We feel the infinite in time
the emptiness in space
and the power of our trajectory.

Every rock has its own
flavor and feel
as we swim through it.

When we finally awake
our pillow seems so hard and solid
as does our body as we move it.