Thursday, January 18, 2024

Snooze Button

By Laura Blunier

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my eyes cannot stay open…  

…and…then the world slides by;  

a voluptuous blur… 

after staring at my ceiling 

…for endless hours  

I struggle my way out…

out of the morass that is my bed  

out of disoriented thoughts…and spaces  

leaving their pale shapes behind  

my sheets become as leaden as…  

…chains, resting heavily,  

trapping me down… 

as the high-pitched wheeze of the alarm once again shocks my body into the brilliance  

of one more sunrise,  

the impatient progress of  

 a now forgotten day

 

 

About the Author

 


When Laura Blunier isn't busy reading her family’s minds, as a good psychology major should ;), she enjoys music and being cozied up with a book. While she would really like more free time, she is pretty happy spending it on her poetry, which is anything from silly to serious to whatever dorky mood she is currently in. She also likes Tennyson and Longfellow, but it’s also really fun to break all the language rules when she gets the chance to.

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