BEFORE I SLEEP by warpedpoetic

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BEFORE I SLEEP
The sky darkens
and the bed becomes a tomb.
My body open up to dreams
like moths to a burning candle,
like butterflies to ovulating flowers.
I hear the walls talk to each other
and shadows moved across the window sill.
The curtains flutter, seeking escape with the wind
and each moon that peers in, weeps.

The finger of a fog creeps 
to my knees and kiss my hips.
Sex is on my mind as i file the thought,
beneath the sheets but each cricket chirp 
jostles my thoughts and i scramble back 
into my body and find nightmares waiting.

I let my skin feel the sheets,
warm after i had rolled the flakes 
of dandruffs off my itchy scalp.
I don't want to die alone, afraid
and silent in this night.
If i am to lie with death, then
I want to jump off a bridge with a crowd in sight,
a paddle in case i don't drown right,
a rope in case i can't swim against the tide.

I dream of home and flowers -
hibiscus and roses, water lilies and forget-me-nots
Do you remember those leaves that fold 
when you touch them? 
Or those that close at night like eyelids
and wake up with the sun?
I have forgotten how to say the words
and now i don't seem to know what to say.

A song filters inside me 
and i shrug off the sleep like my wrapper 
stinking of old semen stains 
and old unclean tears.
I am not sure of tomorrow 
but i can't sleep and tomorrow has met me here, 
awake, my thoughts roaming through the night,
seeking for peace, seeking for rest.
Tomorrow has met me here.
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