When are you

midnight sleeps all dark and lonesome
passing through the days
and drifting through doorways
singing out sin and soul
staring you down until-
with forced, heavy conviction-
you bring yourself along.

awakening in muddled daylight
confusion blooming on your cheeks
when are you now?
tearing off covers and running through the streets
searching something desperate
as the sunlight cuts through you.

When are you now?
Blinded by daylight
stumbling down wretch filled slums
hands grasping
and holding tight
attempting to pull you forward
and backwards

oh, when are you now?
Bathed in red light
and backed by a tye-dye sky
dark silhouette
scream mercy and surrender
all your ill-got finery
until, somehow,
again you see
your captor and your enemy
and darkness coming down around you
like a well meaning fiend
when are you, now?
velvet midnight drifting through your sleepless days