It’s going to hurt in the morning
When your
        stumbling
                life
has become the tumultuous poetry that you dread.

And maybe it’s not supposed to
make sense; but really,
        it’s
                supposed to!
NOT the
churning, tumbling obfuscation
        You’ve terminally come to accept —
(hesitatingly, begrudgingly perhaps)
        as the hum-drum daily activities
        that you wish you could take for granted -

BUT that beautiful instant of
indescribable
                glory where
whatever you’d remembered, you forgot

and the opposites proved true
as the Law of Gravity
                
plummeted
                        
into

empty
space

and some number
        that is key to every problem you
“plug and chug”
        becomes a name
that you know you should never dispose of.

But the name’s on the tip of your
TONGUE
        and you choke on your
breath
        until the pressure BURSTS
        the cavity in your brain

and the chaos that you fear becomes order
as the hum-drum day becomes
                EXTRAORDINARY

because the world turned upside-down
        and left you standing
                where you were.

So while the hurt becomes cheer in a
        different perspective,
you stumble right-side up

and from this side of the looking-glass
                the morning doesn’t
        seem so
intimidating
after all.