The landscape in the pillow

[SnarlingThroughOurSmiles]

We wander into Sleep,
the gates of this holiest church Why is sleep a church?
rusted and overgrown.
The cult of Dreamers -
in our nightcaps, gowns, and slippers -
marches onwards, into Sleep.

The landscape in the pillow greets us:
the spires of Somnium Terra Grammatically it's conventionally Terra Somnium but I guess this works too
punctuate its verdancy Not challenging you, just wondering why the land of sleep would be green?
like full stops in a love letter,
as in a mystical fetter What's being fettered?
the avatar of Life withers.

But what of the need to guard this place?
- To save our cardboard Christendom
from these marauding Mosselmen, In this context, who are the Mosselmen? Also, the reference makes sense in terms of the whole Crusaders theme but I'm sure there are ways to make references to the Crusades without seeming...vaguely racist.
their scriptures of the Real
aloft in ev'ry meeting place
throughout our holy lands.

A sermoniser crests the mount,
shorn of beard and robe,
a column of light its only form.
'Whichever metamorphosis appeals to you,
my resting babes' it says, 'do not be pressed
in dirt and age. The only sage is called Unreal.'