Sleep
By Armando Ortiz
She is a seductive traitor,
who covers you with her dark veil-
many have succumbed
to the tiredness that she brings.
But the needs of life launch us toward
that direction of mindless labor,
trying to make an extra buck, punch in the extra hour
to pay the bill that landed on the mailbox yesterday.
Sometimes we are convinced that she is with us,
fighting daylight and fighting tiredness-
our tag team partner when we want to make that extra buck
to build something better on the limited options available.
She whispers lies into your ear,
saying, “we are almost there.”
Needing money, we become deaf and blind
only to hit the concrete curve or a brick wall .
But her bite is worse than the viper’s
and more dangerous than the boa constrictor,
before you know it, you blink and snooze,
and betrayed- you lose
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