WE FIND WAYS TO PAUSE
to sleep of anxiety
we find ways to dream of anxiety while sleeping through it
to dream of the relentless pounding of anxiety
we find ways to declare anxiety as a replacement for sleep
to darken anxiety by sleep of it
we find ways to achieve darkness
to close our eyes in a darkened anxiety
to be reminded of anxiety during sleep
to achieve a darkened anxiety while closing our eyes in the being of anxiety
we find ways to know that we are sleeping
to sleep in the knowing
to describe to a lesser being the hierarchy of darkness
to the being of a room lessened by becoming darkness
to the lesser being lessened by being
to assume hierarchy by being lesser than
we find ways to achieve status by stating anxiety in the realm of sleeplessness
to sleep in a darkened knowing of a lesser darkness
to know there is another darkness
to drop one for the other
to one being the other’s opening
to encompass the lessons of concentration as a guise for meditation
to spell differently the idea of quiet using meditation as a lark
to leave this
to become the one reading this instead of the one sleeping
we find ways
what is there to remember
waiting deep in the folds
of pixelated grey matter
what lies beyond the new day
an alarm that doesn’t want to sleep
in my house steady as a breeze
a sound on a waking world
ready so not for change the orange sky
falls through my pockets and I think
it’s not me it’s the world
unrest at an easy juncture I step
on a long night and nowhere
was there a manual for keeping sane
in the middle of the street heart sterilized
in the back of a throat what is there
to remember
WE FIND WAYS TO ISOLATE
we find ways to isolate truth
to isolate power
by calling on the shapes that save us
the shapes that survive us
out of brain into body
we call on our instincts
to isolate hurt
away from emotion
to protect our power
we call on our truth
to attempt deflection out of heart
we call on our hurt
to isolate deflection
away from the shapes that save us
the ones that define us
are the ones we call on
to survive our truth
we call on our finding
out of knowing
away from doing
we find ways
to isolate truth