Second Sleep

There is no anxiety in my waking
a moment so steady and at peace
the calmness quiets so delicately
over and through my mind a deep breath

This hour is uncounted by most aside the night shift
it comes to me as soaring colored emotion gusting
the deepness of the dark hides that which might deceive
my eyes useless, I'm staring only at my mind movie paint

The first sleep is gone from me and with it the twisting fits
A profound inhalation captures those thoughts
The exhalation doesn't come easily, but it must turn
and into it go the deep-seated and the soul passengers

Wakeful departure turning tracks with unexpected switches
A train ticket missing destination brings my fearful heart
Staring through windows, accelerating landscape passes with haste
At the station, the second sleep has taken me

Hear Me

It is me that I want to see tomorrow morning
nobody else will do

I can't even look anymore to see if I am there
in here I know that it is me

Out there I won't go look for you
smiling alone I've gone

A nearby clock is too far past
it's time to run, it's time to see me through

I've dreams colored music coming over me now
they are everything, the only thing

That rhythm is so criminal, it is so needed
what I want is so easily overtaken by it

It remains the only thing so blaringly real
how could I not realize it's me calling me now

We all dream staring into a mirror waiting for ourselves
broken children playing asleep

it has been too long since we've kept our eyes open long enough
sleeping souls can't wake up fast enough

I hear it and want it to be every word I say
every word I say

Only When the Music Plays

I was going crazy

until the music started playing

with my mind

Paint dream crosses

roll by car windows stuck

in the down position

Random weather falling

coats worn upon wide fields

from days when I was lost

Never cold breath

opens over the winter lake

like ships frozen and adrift

The crime to stare

to see you standing there

to need to want

Deep is the sky

full of a hundred black birds

I stare with envy

I've gone there finally

with the music playing

in my mind