The Wide Awake Weekend Poems

So I wrote these two poems when I had insomnia this past weekend and didn't sleep the Friday night-Saturday morning. Hope you enjoy!- Dave

4:11 am

By David Marcus Karp

Sea of reflections of the night

Streetlights guide me through the open

Flashes of electricity excite the eyes

Through the tunnel of steel thunder

Sleeping, woken, moving, THINKING

Nothing, guarding, loving, thinking

Nothing, nothing, lying, thinking

Nothing, nothing, nothing, thinking

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing

Where do I go from here?

Home was such a yesterday

Dreaming is the present

Finding “fearless” future feels forever

Can I go back a few stops?

Time is non-existent now

But only a few stops away

This is…

Insomnia

By David Marcus Karp

When you can’t tell apart sunrise from sunset

And your eyes are useless shutters

Thoughts from head, heart, and soul collide

And you just become part of any crowd wandering

You’ve seen me in the deadest of nights

I’m good nor bad, just another reality

I’m walking the streets of raw consciousness

Or driving on empty streets looking for a friend

Waiting for some dreamed up escape

And rolling the dice on truth

It’s the only honest deal in a world gone astray

And you realize you may have always been the only one awake