Offering it Up at 0200 - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Offering it Up at 0200

 

Offering up the surging pain - but to whom?

There doesn’t seem to be Anyone there

The hissing CPAP doesn’t want to talk

Outside the window there is no good-night moon

 

One could allude to the clock ticking in the night-time

But there is no clock ticking in the night-time

Because there are no clocks to tick anymore

Only computers manacled to our wrists

 

Two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage?

Just now there seems to be no Purpose in it

(I pinched a few allusions from Margaret Wise Brown and Arthur Conan Doyle.)