Night

 

Everything

At night

Is still.

Click-clack

Click-clack

Hum

Hum

Click-clack

Pitter-patter

The only sounds

Heard.

Underestimated

Of course

But here

Right here

Now

Is still.

Slowly becoming

Some sort of

Owl

Balancing

Being a

Ray.

Hum

Humming

Strumming

Click

Click

Sounds of machine

Not life

But life

Is known.

Night is when

The world

Shuts off

(At least

My end)

While other

Life is

Beginning.

Life on the

Other side

But also

Life

Outside

My door.

Strange.

Why sleep

When world is

Still revolving?

“I’ll sleep when

I’m dead”

Sensible.

Senile.

What have you.

Crack

Back

Life sounds

Machine shuts

Ding

Ding

Ding

New one

Hum stops

Ding starts

Or

Really

Ding always

There

Hum cover

Up.

Click-clack

Always around

If not here

Then in

My head.

All day.

All night.

Even when

Night is still.