Midnight Loop

I wake up wired

Mind on fire

Scrolling through a million lives

Like I’m the quiet choir

Same old room

Same chipped paint

Dreams on the dresser

Next to bills and complaints

Clock says “move”

But my doubts say “wait”

So I turn that guilt

Into lines on a page

Turn my fears

Into tiny brave jokes

If life’s a tight rope

I’m tying it in knots I can hold

I’m stuck in this midnight loop

Same four walls, same view

But I rhyme ’til the sky turns blue

Make a new world out this little old room

Midnight loop

Every thought goes zoom

But I write ’til the dawn comes through

Turn my stuck into something I can use

Group chat lit

But my soul on mute

Everybody flexing

Borrowed truth

I don’t need a filter

For the cracks I got

They the proof I lived

Not a glitch in the shot

Mama said “rest”

I said “one more line”

’Cause the words in my chest

Keep tapping on time

I ain’t rich

But my tape got hope

If I cash one check

Let it be your chokehold gone

I’m stuck in this midnight loop

Same four walls, same view

But I rhyme ’til the sky turns blue

Make a new world out this little old room

Midnight loop

Every thought goes zoom

But I write ’til the dawn comes through

Turn my stuck into something I can use