3 am cup of coffee

A 3 am cup of coffee

Brewed with shaking, relentless fingers

Milk swirling together like thoughts

In a restless, sleepless mind

A 3 am cup of coffee,

Poured over melting ice

Spilled over endless sheets of lined paper

Soaked up hastily

A second cup of 3 am coffee

Brewed with tired, lethargic hands

Milk carton discarded,

Poured in the last clean cup

A return to the papers

Dawn is breaking.