blue jewels of sleep

blue jewels of sleep
intersecting ineffective
transactional tangles
hearts mangled
playing every angle
and never coming up
any more than square
blue jewels of sleep
await a dormant passion
push it down into slumber
slumber just to slumber
slumber just to sleep until
something new will happen
sleeping whole days through
like rings in your mother’s jewelry case
hidden when the distant family comes to visit
wary and needful
blue jewels of sleep
doing less than they used to
unrequited love triangles
everyone loving someone
no two ever matching up
in both directions
at the same time
starships passing in the night
on three axes of starlost longing
lasers spinning out forever
hitting nothing
hitting nothing until the end of time
because everything keeps expanding forever
against a field of black speckled with
blue jewels of sleep
off in the distance