Daylight peeps and glows before
the purple beasts of the night
who are slowly mocked in orange.
Triumphant harbinger
of a lightened glower...
another lifetime
another chance
to know nowness.
Demons cower and hide...
lighten up and open blinds,
the flowers will lift lovely heads
as birds trill above the bustle
of cars wheels and commerce.
Knowing now by light of day
does not ease the darkened tempest
when cold sheets and rushing beats
are comforted by the distant ticking
and counting chime of the trickster clock.
I wait for dawn, yet again
for another chance to outsmart time.
