Peaceful Night

The night is so peaceful

So utterly disturbing

So silent filled with noise

So dark

So bright

Peaceful is the night

Time to be alone

Looking inward

With eyes wide open

No interruptions

No distractions

Suspended in the world

Rooted to the ground

Simple thoughts

Cluttered life

Easy choices

Hard decisions

Noise of the night

Run and hide at night

Cars, factories, people

Cease to split my head

Only the night creatures

That occupy my mind

Decisions to decide

Thoughts to think

Choices to choose

Decisions to choose

Thoughts to choose

Choices to decide

Think choose decide

And order will do

In the peaceful night

The night is a welcome change

Day causes the eye to wander

Look at everything

Focus on nothing

The dark of night

Demands my patience

Can’t be in a hurry

Don’t glance quickly

Carefully observe

Take it all in

Is the day as it appears

Is the day as bright

As the night is dark

What the night prohibits

The mind allows

Creates images

Clearer and brighter

Than any sun can do

Let the mind present

The world your world

The world of the internal

That world of its choosing

It will decide for you

It will work probe show

And scare

I can’t run away

Where can I go

I can’t escape

I’m not a prisoner

Yet I am imprisoned

The bright of the night

Forces me to see

I decide to see

What’s been decided for me

Now to close my eyes

Make the nighttime brighter

Can’t escape it

Must confront it

Can’t look away

Won’t go away

Must satisfy it

Must appreciate it

Nothing to do but watch

And watch

The brain controls the day

The mind controls the night

It won’t let me sleep

Try and it continues

Within me

With out me

Stay awake, deal with it now

Sleep and deal with it now

Avoid it tonight

Obsess with it tomorrow

Makes no difference

There’s still tomorrow night

It will be satisfied

Picture’s unclear

Images blurred

Words make no sense

Laying there confused

Yeah really so what

Who questions the tyrant

Clay serves the potter

Protesting for naught

Isn’t the silent night silent

Are not the sounds n more

Don’t the sounds disappear

Not just a shift change

What’s not during the day

Reaches crescendo ay night

Here is my night

Bright as my day

Here they come

Demons in white

Pretending to comfort

Bringing fear

Smiling with mouths

Expressionless eyes

Offering peace

Intending strife

Presenting open arms

Displaying clenched fists

Black demons

Dressed in white

Empty smiles

Only teeth

Empty eyes

Only stares

Empty promises

Only confusions

At peace with my self

During the day

Night is at peace

By tormenting me

In an empty night

My mind fills the void

Bringing unwelcome guests

Uninvited

Unappreciated

Another silent night

Filled with inner noise

Another peaceful night

Filled with inner war

Pictures flying close

Images swirling near

Always moving ‘round

Never ever clear

Torn pictures flutter

Shattered images cut

Confusion ever clear

Outside world is calm

Inside something else

Word’s fast and loud

Always distorted

Repeated end on end

Can’t follow my thoughts

All’s in a flash

Bouncing again and again

The echoing words

Never in context

Never in synch

In the fractured world

Of images and sounds

Stay on my toes

Try to keep up

Follow its lead

Don’t give up

It won’t let me

Make sense of it

I know I won’t

Take it all in

Let it all out

I know I can’t

If I don’t catch it

This time around

It won’t need to worry

I’ll get another chance

Tomorrow’s another night

Another peaceful night