How Are You Snoozing on Your Life?

snoozing on life

when every emotion arrives
like a wave crashing on the shore
that sweeps you up
and carries you out to sea
when every transition is a trauma
when each person
you encounter
adds to the weight
of what you carry
sleep offers your only respite
a dry desert
in a monsoon of tears
a safe harbor from
absorbing
the silent suffering of people
you have never met and
may never know

some seek shelter
under the covers
some take refuge
in the temple of busy
and others find solace
in the spinning webs
of the mind

each
in their own way
resisting what’s real
escaping the present
inoculating to the pain
of being awake, aware, and alive

snoozing on life