Beth A. Fleisher

Hour 6

 

Prompt 6:  My Own. 🙂

 

The Alarm (Clock)

 

Clearly, the inventors of alarm clocks

and digital phone alarms

to start the day

had a skewed (or totally screwed up) psyche.

How else would they have devised such torture?

On a daily basis, no less!

You’re in deep REM sleep,

maybe in some lovely dream space,

and suddenly there’s this loud, discordant noise

jolting you awake,

dragging you from the dream!

Heart thumping, you look wildly around,

until gradually the blood gets back to your brain

and you realize what it is.

Reaching for your phone,

you smack the blinking X to make it stop.

Ahhhh. Blessed silence returns.

You snuggle back down in your blankets, hopeful…

…but, really, do you have any prayer of returning

to that magical, mystical dream space?

Nope. It’s Gone Forever.

Thanks a lot, stupid alarm!!