Insomnia
Blackwater tide
no longer functional
blemishes of toxins
Frankenfish contamination
environmental risk, insomnia spurs.
In and out thoughts
Mind-worry cycle of self rule
in free flowing confetti that won't anchor
No streaks of mindful grace
Never one with the stilled darkness
Only splintered images of disappointments
stacked like packing crates.
Unable to count sheep
(too distracted by their calm cud chewing).
Prayer for the dispatch of quiet's mind
To barter all for a drug to quell wakefulness
Relief from restlessness in mind numbing news
over making wrong choices
my fall through the sky.
Powerless to erase a brain script of failure,
to know a measured response to love.
Smack the pillows again
A beating in progress
None the softer
for brain waves
on cushions of letdown
soiled by secrets.
Poem revised January 21, 2021
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