Elucidating Questions

Please don’t make me be awake.

Please let me go back to sleep.

I try so hard to stay asleep

I want to be free for a moment more

I want to have a home for a moment more

I want to belong for a moment more.

I look up

There are clouds for the first time in weeks I try to barter with them

I’ll stay awake,

If it rains.

I will trade you my happiness for rain.

Please fall so the earth doesn’t look so parched, so the sun cannot burn you out of the sky before a drop falls.

I will give you the time I wanted to spend somewhere my mind created

If you allow the rain to fall and the plants and animals to be satiated of their thirst.

I’ll trade you.