Indigo

[Querida]

Here I find you
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I sought you with awakened patience
unwittingly enthralled by night
eyes rimmed with burnt exhaustion
lids wavering on closed
tossing, turning,twisting,
thoroughly restless..............

A frenzied mind
that without you
tirelessly keeps a-spinning..........
stewing in its own
endless maze...........

And what simulated slumber
have I chanced upon now?

my limbs, they lay busily abuzz
under the leaden burden of daze
my tranquilized mind, not my own
held prisoner upon the threshold
of dreams
sluggishly struggling past the nitty-gritties
of waking life
the granules of worry
burrow themselves only deeper


still I know without a second thought
that one grain is not enough