I didn't sleep last night.
I was too full of the words you left me with
Empty because in the end they were deemed meaningless
Lies.
I didn't sleep* because who I was vanished with you,
So who am I now?
The sun persisted in rising higher and higher in the sky
Lightening the room in which I tried to force my eyes and my soul shut
the light had no place with me-
But I knew I couldn't delay it for long.
The sun has no concept of our impatience
or our resistance to it.
I didn't sleep last night.
But like it or not,
beg and plead as I did,
Still it rose-
dragging me relentlessly into today
with no more answers than I had in its absence.