Cocooned in groggy haze
swamped with torpid emptiness
jaded sea of inert vacuum
laden with muzzy loneliness
sharp tick-tock of the weary wall clock
I lie awake with my eyes shut tight
striving in vain to dream dreams
caged in a mute indifferent night
inertia of stodgy listless being
wait is long… no sight of dawn
Exhausted ceiling-fan rotates
loose rusty rod, old dusty blades
creaking & groaning every two rounds
lazily it swings & sways
just like fan & the clock
I too am a mechanical zombie
wobbling thru’ the night... barely alive
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 7:45 AM UTC
Cocooned in groggy haze
swamped with torpid emptiness
jaded sea of inert vacuum
laden with muzzy loneliness
sharp tick-tock of the weary wall clock
I lie awake with my eyes shut tight
striving in vain to dream dreams
caged in a mute indifferent night
inertia of stodgy listless being
wait is long… no sight of dawn
Exhausted ceiling-fan rotates
loose rusty rod, old dusty blades
creaking & groaning every two rounds
lazily it swings & sways
just like fan & the clock
I too am a mechanical zombie
wobbling thru’ the night... barely alive
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