The Art of Waking

As sleep etches its sought embrace
around your shoulders,
the calm leaks into every pore as a
chemical dance between mind and desire.

But it doesn’t last.

Its comfort surrounds you, buries you,
and brings you to the haven of
silent clocks and silky sheets,
then you find yourself in the twisted state between
the waking and the dream.

And as you surface to this
conscious place of misunderstanding,
all you find are the questions
about the chase, and the capture,
and what stole you from your sleep.