I toss once more, no respite gained
Electric shocks in legs and feet
Chased by thoughts by night unchained
The mind’s grimoire between the sheets

In muddled gloom I glance about
The shapes confused and flowing
I turn my focus from the world without
To the questions never slowing

A moonlit waltz, the sackcloth step
The shadows find their rhythm
The veil parts, the haunting starts
I am frightened, I am with them

From me a font of inquiries
The dark is somber as it listens
I pluck the chords of my realities
Each life a string that glistens

Are we the dreamers in dust, calamitous
Our minds the forge, our fears the flame
Or just a ripple, brief, anomalous
In an enigma too vast to name

Too many thoughts whirl around me
A fleeting glimmer in an endless tide
Perhaps time-milled stars remember me
Light reflected ‘pon the other side

I curl into abject surrender
Not in defeat, but in delay
Let tomorrow’s dark be my splendor
And maybe then, the stars will say