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Light Sleeper

Surfacing like an anxious submarine
or wide awake 
at the press of any of my buttons 
- and they are many -
you could say
that I’m a light sleeper

Murdered regularly 
in a hundred ways 
by as many assassins -
you could say 
that I’m a light sleeper.
 
My heart pounding
my breath short
my ears ringing -
always flight 
never fight -
I lie musing 
working out how
I might’ve engineered 
my escape

But failing every time

When deep sleep 
finally comes to get me
when in my head 
I’ve only been snoozing 
I awake startled 
at the passage of time

15.10.21

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Colin Hicks

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