welcome home

Sobbing shadows
Casted by moonlight
City lights blur together
A neon wet spot
I will be fine
If I can just make it home
Before the tears
Pool down around my ankles

A little dizzy
Faces kaleidoscope past
Leaves argue with a breeze
Hands in my pocket
Flashes of color
Dance behind my eyes
A bladder leaking
Down my face
But I’m almost home

Ring the buzzer
Enter the fluorescent hallway
Green with sickness
A neighbor’s argument
Seeps under the door
But I am home
To float peacefully
Salt water stains
On just washed linens

Drift off, drift off
Fall asleep,
Rush to slumber
sobbing shadows
Pirouette on the walls
Eyes closed –heart shutting down
Stymied beats,
skipping rope with death