Sleepless

Blackout curtains tightly drawn
Cracks of light seep in as dawn
Truck growls down the interstate
Sounds and worries penetrate

Basso snores through paper wall
Loosened thoughts begin to crawl
Through a restless, aching mind
And pare away my outermost rind

Between the very late and early hour
Awake, in hunger, I reach to scour
Blue light screens for the fire-cold word
To loosen me from the numbed herd

Ether-loft friends from far-off places
Shitpost, ratio, weave threaded traces
Paths to a crudely enlightened state
Aware, I now accept what is innate

Sleepless, my mind’s eye out of focus
Yet somehow fixed on the desired locus
Throwaway replies descend like rope
Grasping them, I scale cliffs of hope.