Insomnia

Wishful thinking

Isn’t all it might be.

Hopes wrapped in dreams

Stretching far beyond eternity.

Out of reach and out of time

Desperate questioning

Irrelevant “why?”

Answer in the unanswering.

Echoes sing to faraway stars

Of foreign melodies and familiar rhymes

Within reach

Just in time

They know of this imagined eternity

And sing it back to me

Sundial

How long? I ask

HOW LONG?!?! I scream

Silence

Silence

How long? I cry

HOW LONG?!?! I plead

Silence

Silence

How long? I whisper

HOW LONG?!?! I pray

Just a while longer,

Trust me!

Only a little more,

Believe me!

Silence

Silence

But Your time is different than mine!

Your time is deceiving! HOW LONG?!?!

Is it never to be?

Silence

Silence