Transitioning / by Madison Galloway

Night to day

Day to night

Living each fleeting moment

In pure and utter fright


Not knowing where the other turns

Where one begins

Or truly ends

Did today start yesterday


And have I already missed tomorrow

The bottle is my savior

As I savor my sins with each drop of liquor

Leaving my morals weak 

And my sorrows thicker


Like a newborn child

I cry out 

And yet no one knows why


I don’t know why

The night becomes day

Or does the day become night?


Leave me be

I protest

If I don’t know why

And you don’t know why

Why are we pretending that everything’s fine?

Why am I believing in this lie?


Still, I wait 

For night to become day

And day to night

Waiting to live each moment in euphoric delight


For one day there will be no more dark

And no more light

No more day

And no more night


One day is someday

But it isn’t today