When Sleep Fails

There’s always a story, outside my window 

different ones though, from the bedroom and the living room 


Same water, same sky ... Different story 


I bet the sky doesn’t know 

It’s my couch and my plants 

Or the sleepless nights 

in the audience 

nor does the water 


Yet the narratives change 

The rhetoric mutates … 


Both the fairy lights lit boat  and the commuter ferry 

switch characters, on cue with ease 


The stories abound.. multitudes, textured, iridescent, flirtatious 


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