I toil in the dreamtime
like a night manager
in a hotel without walls,
catering to clientele –
whose needs, so diverse,
rattle the rows of beds –
settling disputes and
encouraging discretion
and succeeding only
in waking exhausted.
I am like a keeper in
a hostile hostel –
trying to find a key
when there are no
doors to unlock.
(Inspired by sleepless nights and erratic dreaming, and submitted for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt – unlock. Featured image is titled “Self-Portrait with Colours” although my son says it looks more like a LSD trip – I didn’t ask. Alternate title: “I am Slowly Going Crazy”, lol.)