Eating Ice cream for breakfast

eating ice cream for breakfast

 

my night thoughts were

spreading like a plague

 infecting each night with seemingly

never ending nightmares

I awoke each morning

more  exhausted

than the last

I was feeding masses of people

 and coming up short

saving friends and family

 from unknown perils

running or escaping
  from unseen predators

and always...always falling

 and most traumatic...
  frantically trying
to cover my naked body
while out in public

with just my hands 

 

as I slowed my pounding heart

my partner turned to me and said

“maybe you should start eating that ice cream in the morning ...instead of before bedtime?”