Traveling Sleep

Bad dreams in a strange bed as your neighbor sleeps on and on. You turn on the tv, you turn it on, only to here its static song. Telephone lights of people in far off places, with nothing to do but send you the messages about their life. Wanting attention. Your stomach rumbles as you get up and walk around quietly, shuffling your feet, groaning, blurry eyed with sleep and bad vision. The clock glows a red six o four. The silence is too grave for sleeping, outside is too dangerous for waking. Washing your face off in the mirror you stumble back in bed, which is cold now, unbearably so. Your mind drifts. Complimentary breakfest, ha, that's what we're all waiting for.