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Poem: Insomnia

3/27/2015

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This is where we leave the world behind…

In our dreams

The mad places that no one else sees

Visceral colors

Like cherry blossoms and a furious thunderstorm

A contrast of violence ... speak out loud

BEAUTY

Birth and destruction

The space where our demons, dark and furious in their hunger

Beckon at our minds with tongues sharp ... speak out loud

VICIOUS

And those beautiful, stunning angels stand by

Calming the storm with terrible voices

This is where we welcome the dawn

With wide open arms

Promises of and for a tomorrow that exists only in a wish

Tucked between a violet and pink sky

And through the day we wait with patient fervor

For the night

Glorious in its possibilities

Where the lights are turned down low - barely a shadow

And no one, ourselves included

Can see the flaws and scars of years gone by

With memories so lucid they pinch your skin

To wake you up

When you weren’t dreaming to begin with

This is where we open our eyes.


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    Stevie N. Berberick is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Washington and Jefferson College. Stevie often finds themself hostessing solitary dance parties in the kitchen, hanging out with their furrmiliars (Ivy and Halle), or playing with alchemy while electroforming jewelry -- when they're not reading, researching, and/or writing, that is.

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