00:00.
I fell asleep angry
and woke up in a loop.
2:00 a.m.
blinking.
The clock forgets itself
00:00.
Start again.
I keep being late
to something that hasn’t happened yet.
Alarms ringing
for feelings I swallowed.
Midnight resets.
I don’t.
Eyes yank open — 4, 5, 6am
Days replay.
Conversations reassemble.
Contained anger
turns into insomnia.
Even in my sleep
I am rehearsing
for a performance.
Waiting
for the right time
to explain the differences.
There is no right time.
The hour changes.
The pattern doesn’t.
Timing
or repetition?
Forced to watch
the looped differences.
You realize a little more
each time
and then
00:00.
The clock strikes.
The day
starts again.