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.)
