Heart’s troubled rhythm keeps me awake
I would sleep
When world’s crust goes black
When sunsets rest –
-I ask when did you do it?
When, brother, did those fragments of doubt pry open your brain into splinters
I slept
Through your infidelity to Life
As your dalliance with Death took the wheels of your car over the edge
No, let’s be truthful
I slept through your late night’s gaming
Through your life with your wife
I slept through you –
– As if there was another you.
As the toast burns
And the smoke alarm goes off
I scraped the plate into the trash
Just another sunset put to death
I would sleep
As you did sleep through me
An excuse to all the waste
I never knew you
The heart beats
I never knew you.
AbyKittiwake 