New Poem Composed Under the Covers (at 12:00 am)

Unable to fall asleep last night, this poem almost wrote itself around midnight (when I posted it) from my bed, in the dark...

Thank you, Steemit, for being my mobile diary and allowing me to unburdem myself at any time.

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A House Divided

I was in a life-long rush
because I could not tell
when I might self-combust

Every sunrise to sunset
I tried to run far and fast
to outdistance disaster

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But I was never free
to be other than me
or reset a date with fate

It was never a given
one secure day to live in
without self-sabotage

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So part of me carefully built
a makeshift shelter from the storm
while another part dismantled it

Meantime, I learned to pray
and repeat, by night and by day:
Heaven save us from ourselves.

—-Y. Lababidi

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Art by Al Farrow