I stumble through unlit streets
Slipping on steps and stones
Climbing, reaching
Rewarded by a cosmic view
City lights, a man-made micro galaxy
The blackness of the ocean
Like darkness seeping into stars
frothing at the mouth; hungry
2am and I am making shapes with flames
Masked in a fiery dance
I am hell in mourning
4am and a man in a poncho hands me a cone
His face cracked with skeleton paint
I blink and miss him
The stars are different here
Strange new constellations
Reminding me I'm not at home
9am and I roll a joint
Take 3 sleeping pills
The black ocean seeps into my skull
One by one the stars go out
