Meditation

I lie awake and watch

            as the stars take their slow

                        journey across the sky through

                                    my open bedroom window.

The full moon’s silvery light

is a dagger that cuts through the

darkness, across my stomach and

onto the stained carpet littered

with empty Coke cans and

McDonald’s wrappers.

Its light is blinding

  as though it’s shining

  its brightest only for

  me; a colorful symphony

  for the messy lifestyle

  that is me.

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23 10/10/02;11/8/02

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