one summer night
Published in
Jul 9, 2023
one summer night, tonight,
i lie in bed, breathing in heat
and breathing out dust clouds
of thoughts i’ve had a thousand
times before.
it seems the summer is the perfect
place to breed anxious thoughts
into hovering mists, and sweat
is the perfect glue to stick them
to my skin.
i brush them off and turn over,
closing my eyes once again, and
press my earbuds deeper.
sleep will come; it always does.
