EVERY ONCE COUNTS (glass bomb)

every once in a blue moon,
you wake up with shards of glass
sticking out of yr. face,
as if you used a glass bomb for a pillow.

every once in awhile,
awhile seems like a nanosecond,
as if time decided to finally
give you a break & break itself,
just for you.
cuz every hour is a full calendar year,
& every once counts.

every night there's
a miniscule apocalypse
manifesting like an absent apparition,
an absent ghost, a waste of space,
every night,
not sleeping next to me,
&
not waking up next to me,
every night
&
every morning,
an inescapable apocalypse,
a nonexistent banshee
destined to haunt me forever.
even if you appear, i wouldn't trust you,
cuz yr. eyes would be...plastic.