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Bed257

I am a lone foreigner alocated 
in an exotic landscape with 
nothing but the foaming blue tides of duvet 
that I rythmically sway with like 
the sweet branches of spring. 
I stand, bend, sit on the salty 
lips of that ocean. 

however the shallow has never 
been my comfort zone so 
I fling myself into the belly of my bed 
and find my head in the jaws of a soft
pillow chewing my skull at snail pace. 
slowly, a heavy weight of 
sleep drowns my lifeless limbs 
and sedates my consciousness with a lullaby. 
"you're free! 
free from labour, free from you, free from everything besides me", sings Lady Lazy. 

suddenly
dawn breaks with orange permeable heat, 
she is Bed 257. 
she is not a root, she is a seed. 
keeping me from work,
I pull myself out of 
the vast roaring sheets and tidal duvet, 
I'm gratefully unappreciative 
and so the cycle continues.

Copyright © Mthokozisi Dube

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