Sleeplessness

I imagine each of you

breathing softly

as you lay in the arms 

of your beloved 

transported in sleep.

My eyes are open

gazing into the dark

like fixed coins

while the cats run across 

the ceiling and stare

with green eyes glowing 

in the moonlight.

Sleep has slid through

the hourglass like

pale sand

and it is gone

I have walked 

through my dreams

looking for something 

else that is lost.

In a few moments 

I will get up

and garb myself

in order to battle another day

wrapping my cloth belt

around me like armor

in a ritual of courage.

I am enough

I will be enough again 

for one more morning 

and afternoon and night

and again and again 

putting a foot forward 

over and over

so it looks like 

walking.