Insomnia

On the hiking trail of the night lands
I don't sleep so I walk these dark streets
gait long eyes droop I'm swinging my hands
there is no respite between my sheets

Three calendar flips flash by quickly
I'm starting to see tricksy lights now
please let me rest I mumble thickly
my body doesn't remember how

I try to stand through daylight hours
for if I sit I'll surely doze off
foremost insomniac ability
no matter how much coffee I quaff

My feline spy says I enrage her
I am he the stumbling pied piper
never possessed of gentle nature
lately she hisses like a viper

Wait did I say I converse with cats
my wits are seeming to desert me
my neighbors observe our midnight spats
I'll bet they're making plans to hurt me

Surely those are just paranoid thoughts
for everyone is always so kind
it's only a suspicious onslaught
long awake dust devils of the mind

for a tick my knees quickly buckle
as I fall fast asleep on my feet
I grasp sanity with white knuckles
master of this domain of concrete

the eastern sky soon bloodless and pale
can something be foreshadowed by light
another evening gone to no avail
soon I'll end another wakeful night

Exhausted I direct my steps homeward
turning my alarm off with a smirk
waking up for me is misnomered
I'm waking down now it's time for work