An Insomniac Attack

They’re heavy, my eyelids

Weighted and slowly closing

Chain smoked coffee breath

Acting as Atlas to an insomniac

A mind avoiding sleep as if it were death

Weighted and falling

Falling forward

Towards the lashed horizon

 

J.W. Dalton, USA

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