Head high but eyelids heavy 

Slow and sluggish and somewhat unsteady 

All alarms gone off already 

But the outside world is still dark 

Rent reveries I cannot recall 

Illusions lost upon leaving the lull 

Dynamics depressed to default 

So this is waking up 

A period of pause prolonged 

With will to stay withdrawn 

Clinging and clutching the calm 

As slowly it slips away 

A silence severed by sigh 

The trance trumped by time 

Reluctantly rising upright 

The moment it all begins 

Sinews strained and stretched 

Every fiber far from refreshed 

Exhaustion enacts its effect 

But regardless I must go 

Lethargy’s not lessened by laying 

Staleness not stymied by staying 

War is not won in waiting 

It’s time to be on my way