Staples

 I’m awake and having thoughts

Stuck to my brain, 

Going insane

Can’t figure who to blame

Body aching all day

Eyes slipping underground

Beneath the lid mid drive

Sounds pounding round and round

Hollow man,

Jealous of your hollow head

Lay in bed my eyes are red

Faucet running

Stop, I pled

Stare into my soulful light

Share the right to sleep tonight

Drifting slowly out of sight

Yet, tonight, I cannot sleep

Mind’s too deep

From the peak

It’s much too steep

To step a foot, anywhere

But here up on my pedestal

I’m so small and still I shrink

Staples in my mind, I think