Insomnia

 

 

This cool heat insomniac mind of mine
Scheme instead of dream
Never to sleep tonight
To be physically exhausted and still no resting

I can feel the molecules exploding around me
It must be the Fourth of July at six years of age
See the atoms when my eyes are closed
Going smash splash all around my closed eyelids
Waiting to fall asleep
To rest

Rest exhaustibly with one eye open
The other scheming
Sink into the quicksand of sleep
The nightmare to awake again

Only to try and sleep once more
Again and again
Over and over

It goes on and on
Till the final sleep
Of never waking
Only to dream
And to sleep
Sleep
Sleep

Written by Stack Jones
© Copyright 2010

 

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