Hello Monday

Lost inside the insanity of white noise,
Lost in the 4am magic of hidden moonlight
sonatas and staged sunrise soon to spark a Monday
spark a Monday into action as life goes about living

I
ask
it
kindly
to

// pause //

as I am
engulfed by pitch
black barely lit
by monitor glow, and
wrestle a body far past the point of no return,
into a sleepless night——————————night sleepless,
a body sweat shivering at the mercy of morning,
a morning rapidly revising its radio silence
into a rousing refrain::

Monday, hello Monday

Won’t you stay still in the darkness
for me friend? Won’t you? Won’t you
let your triumphant tune tastefully trickle in slow,
like snails crossing starlit sidewalks in solitude?

I beg of you, keep your bristling sunlight at bay
for just a while longer
Freeze your lunar light
still in the sky,
for another thousand hours,
splitting minutes into a million melodies—

Monday shows no mercy

scores of scores unwritten, unsung,
surrender solemnly to the rising sun.