Towards Nighttime

My sister told me she was going to sleep.
She makes it sound like a place,
as if she'll go there and return in the morning.
If sleep is a place, it must be a place
where everything fits.
In Sleep, I bet all the stoplights turn green
and there are never any awkward silences.

Matt Metsker is a senior at Gig Harbor High School and resides on Raft Island with his mother, father and sister.