Spirals and Star Rides

Trading Sleep for Divinity

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Sometimes I drop in a spiral
One late night follows another
Trying to make time for things not done
Too tired to know they don't matter

Sleep is what matters,
repeat, affirm— ‘rest is not a luxury’
But some nights…
Not even the not-dones can hold me

Those nights,
I trade all to ride the stars
in my chariot winged by mythical beasts
emblazoned with glyphs only Gods can see

I am the fierce of Sekhmat
I am the arms of Kali
I am Diana hunting a line
of a poem, I left in past lives to find

Inspired by

Thomas Gaudex

’s piece, wonderfully describing the ‘highs’ of writing:

Like a Drug

And, I think maybe, also influenced by

Marijke McCandless

’s poem (because I read it recently, and its title stayed with me):

I Am a Poem Unfolding…