Awake For Awake’s Sake
by HFagelman ~ February 12th, 2012. Filed under: Poetry.There was a risk
Certainly
In drinking all that coffee so late
So late into the night
Even mixed with booze it
Courses through veins, arteries, capillaries
Sinew
Beating a pattern on the inside of my skull
Hieroglyphics spelling out
Deathchants and rainbows
Fingers spasm and shake
Eyes fritter and pop
Teeth grind and in the end its
Asleep awake at the keyboard
Poetry singeing the plastic
Morphing the letters into looping nothing
Here again
Caught in the turmoil that is the
Mind awake
Searching and sweating
Cursing and reviewing
Random discourse set in the fiery lightning that
Connects the dots of my thoughts in this
Swirling madness of
Alertness I reach and reach and reach over and
Pummel, destroy, and finally obliterate the
Snooze button.
Copyright 2010 Harry Fagel