is this what night is?

is this what night is:

to turn over our pillows

and sleep on the other side

is night for flavor-some restlessness 

while evasions stir up a crisis

for tight crawling beneath blankets

while the cold blankets the poor

night is brotherly/sisterly confrontation

a companion to accompany your sleep

an awaking to revelations

and visions smothered in light

to God's nauseating presence

churning questions in one stomach

whispering secrets when silence is done

good-night bothersome brother

let us lay upon our beds in peace

crafting babies while playing sex

holding our beloved in our arms

while dreaming of money we'll make

let your darkness flee for hell

taking our dreary-demons with you 

*Thoughts of Richard Rodriguez:

  -We  are now entering a time when we can no longer control history.  Not only can we not control history by putting fences around things and saying, This is clean and that is impure," but we are now participating in a time that we no longer know exactly how to imagine.

 -So many of the most interesting Muslims I know are displaced Muslims, and I want to become that kind of Christian.