Sleeping fitfully.
Energy cords wrap around me
Beckoning me to come,
To investigate.
Like an electric shock they wake me
Stir me out of my night blindness
In a blinding moment.

I open my eyes, and without taking a breath,
Without a conscious thought, in one continuous movement
Wake up, roll over, pick up the silent phone,
Silent, so that it will not wake me,
Laying on the nightstand next to me.
I read the alerts….
Yes, there it is,
3 minutes before.

It woke me anyway, without making a sound.

Connection runs strong.
Whether I want it to be
Or not.
And usually not.
But I have no choice.
There it is…..waking me up
Searching for me.
And I for it.

I can’t ask why,
There are no answers
At least,
None that make sense to me.
Sheer human that I am.
It scares me.
I must quell my insatiable need to understand
The world around me.
The world within me.
The world I see
The world I can’t see.

And the energy that reaches for me in the night.