morning hurts the least
because those same problems
that  were keeping  you from sleep
are now hours behind you and the secret is
they can only catch you if you slow down or
turn around giving you a pretty good head start
to  reinforce your  heart and barricade  your head


so later that night you won’t be lying in your bed
painfully waiting for your troubles to let up
just long enough so you can sneak away
to the promise of another day