Unaware Sleep

Awake, alert in my sleeping bag
Peaceful slumber eludes me
Retreats from my pleading body
And the winds angry bluster threatens
To send the rain sideways
Into my inadequate shelter
I stare up at a starless sky
Stars being shy in nature
Avoid city street lamps
Spotlights cast into the black night
I'm reminded of youth spent
Basking in country glory
Stars clustered so numerously
Heaven itself is unable
To contain them all
Watching them shooting down from the sky
As if fallen from heavens grace
I listen for sounds of comfort from childhood
An early stirring rooster confused of the hour
But hear only a freight train
Crisscrossing well traveled tracks
Blaring horn sounding its approach
Perhaps the sound of a vigilant coyote
Howling its victory in finding a meal
A rabbit unaware of the danger until it is to late
but hear only hevay traffic
Engines reving across the concrete bridge overhead
Or the sound of my mysterious cat
Padding through pasture grass
Hunting I know not what
]But the din of my friend racheting snores
Fills my ears instead
Sleeping the uanware sleep of drunks
My comfort is finally found
In the crooning lullabies of the moon
I at last join the land of idylic cheese dreams
Through train traffic snores
Awaking only when mornings first light
Assaults my face with its greeting