Cycles

Do you know how the game goes?
As all things pleasant arrive
so I become these things.

How great I am
to bring such things to me!
Yet as they go, I cannot keep them,
so I pretend that I can.

Falling into unconsciousness,
a pleasant dream engulfs me.
And then, with eyes closed,
how can I not stumble and fall…
and of course, how can I not wake-up!