Sleepless

Sleepless
Minutes to midnight,
Lights off ages ago,
Eyes off but on,
Envisioning future,
Analysing bad moves,
Laying mental steps to follow.
Mosquito's kiss reminds of love,
Crazy notions of forgiving,
Unpopular apologies,
Heated ego drop,
Ethics/discipline check,
Emotional control but this
does not warrant an escape,
Smashing this parasite,
Is synonymous to closing the nagging past,
A stroke on the bitten skin,
Equates picking up from bad times,
And couragiously trodding on.