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Sleepless nights again

I lie and wait for nothing

And endure the heat

I keep having that same dream

I get on the wrong bus

To disembark before a vast and empty plain

Without discernible landmark

I try and fail to find my way

Through landscapes distorted

My compass spiralling aimless

We share our first

And final words every day

And know nothing of each other

[Unintelligible]

My life has been

Bedevilled with transience

Faces interchanging constantly

And without constancy

Oil and water, I said

Oil and water

But which am I?

Another ceiling I don’t recognize

Another room we will both soon leave

As strangers

Dawn is coming soon

I've paced these floors through the night

Gone before you wake