Monge, Brian: Thoughts of a Madman at 3 A.M.

@brat Publishing Maryland Publication Date: November 10, 2018 Publisher Marketing: THOUGHTS OF A MAD MAN AT 3 A.M. What keeps us awake at night? It’s almost never the comfort and delight of our successes. It’s almost never our inner-peace or self-validation, cradling us to sleep, bathing us in reassurance. No. What keeps us up at night is the chaos that harbors in our heads, about which no one else knows. It’s the voices of doubt and condemnation. The whispers of denial, rejection and screams of disappointment—at 3 a.m. Or perhaps it’s anxiety's laughter, ridiculing us through a small-cracked closet door. The shadows of our sins, haunting us and stalking us from just outside our windows. But through all the chaos, manifesting and uploading into our personal clouds, keeping us awake—there is still the voice of hope. It is a voice that is desperate, demanding, even, to be heard. And that voice is the only thing that keeps us from going completely mad. Poet and writer, Brian Monge, has gr