Boulder.......2 a.m.

Within the night's quietness
gunshots explode
jolting awake my long awaited sleep...
unmistakable pops bounce and echo
through the silence of the hour
and moments later...on cue...
the franticness of sirens can be heard
wailing and screaming...
rushing and hurrying to catch up
with the drama already set loose
in some bodies' just...changed...lives....