Awaken.

Ringing. 
Dream state. 
Ringing. 
Running. 
Heart beating.
Brushing a strand away.
Simply revealing
your
eyes open
wide.
Breath in tandem.

Eyes open.
Eyes close.
Wide shut.

Ringing.
Reality awakens.
Day begins.
Light seeps through eyelids.
Ringing.
Snooze.
Battle the seconds.
Dream dissolves
in pixelated recall.
Chase it in fiction.
It’s gone.

Ringing.
A billion darts of 
to-do lists shoot
through your mind
all at once.
You rise,
in a panic,
prioritizing.

Ringing.
Alarm, off.
Slip away from 
warm body and 
pillows and 
sheets.
Slip into 
hot shower
its steam fogging flesh.
Awake. Awake. Awake.
A moment still, 
still, your day begins.