Diminished (redux)

You were going to try to sleep but you stopped to read this.
What was that choice predicated on?
I hear murmuring coming from outside.
Shadows flit out of the window frame.
There’s a scrabbling at the window up front. Something muffled at the door.
What was that choice?
Maybe you should have taken the other option?
But here you are now.
Under assault.
Options diminished.

What I’m Reading:

“The starlings, always / starlings, tighten / like fists along a strand / of telephone wire”

—John James / “Lullaby”