Hypnos
gentle god of sleep
To dream of sleep within sleep is to long for rest you have denied yourself; Hypnos rules the soft surrender the waking mind resists.
Fragments
Hypnos keeps a cave no sun has ever touched, where the river of forgetting murmurs at the door; even Zeus has bowed beneath his quiet hand.
He asks only that you stop holding the day so tightly. Open your hand in the dark, and he sets a poppy in your palm.
Dreams this one walks through
sleeprestsurrenderexhaustionpeace
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