Respite at 3am
it caresses softly, hands trailing
over spent muscles and aching joints;
soft reverberations of lullabies
long since sung of dreams faraway
from nights sandy-eyed, flagging
under cups of lukewarm coffee
flogged by essays and sentence structures
minds clicking at one thirty beats per minute
feeling the echoes of sleep calling with
lewd glances
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