sleep evades my brain
like the moon erases the day
sinking across the sky
floating in empty chasms of stars
drowned out by the blinding lights
that project into the universe from this
city that encloses itself around my head
like a box of letters
sent from a childhood fantasy
to an adulthood not quite living up to expectation
describing the hopes and dreams inside
the version of me that is not completely
utterly out of love with reality