Insomniac Apocalypse

"I'm goin' to hell---who's comin' with me?"   ---Emenim

or as Mr. Samuel Clemens said:

"I'm not worried about going to heaven or hell---I am sure I have friends in both places!"

Insomniac Apocalypse

by WmAT

12/4/11

The clock is 

running    the piano

has been drinking

How long can a person go

without sleeping?

I have been up

way up

for thirty hours or

is it minutes?

Whirling dervishes

swirl in hallucinigenic nightmares

I wake up scared

I wake up strange

I am afraid

I am never going to change and 

that nothing is ever going to be the same

What do you do when 

Another shall be Another's

forever? 

Do you take down 

the shrine 

dismantle the choir

or pass up the crown

of the clown?

I have replaced 

my dearest

with another for

lack of contact

and because the new poet 

is epic in her own write.

She gives me 

all and expects

nothing.

Her therapy is not mine

She uses ink and

I use paint.

Somehow the song remains the same.