Vanilla Chai

I cannot function
without coffee.
Tea doesn't cut it
-- never has.

Pumpkin doughnut and
"Rockin' around the Christmas tree",
yet, awake,
I cannot be.

I am going to fall
out of my desk,
and perhaps
never awake at all.
I will continue to fall
through time and space--
tumbling past
the secrets of the universe.
If I could only
open my eyes,
I would achieve
omniscience.

I cannot;
the tea doesn't cut it.