My conversations seem so clever when I am asleep.

Circling round and round in banter unspoken and silent to all outside a slumbering ego

Unaware that none can hear and no fruit will ever ripen from this innocuous wit

Or lack thereof.

Better to put a muzzle on this unruly chattering and to listen.

Silence has more to say than these meandering soliloquies that rattle around inside my head and lull me back to sleep in unconscious confusion.

Wake up.

Take a deep breath and listen.  

No more talking until you have something to say.