I Just Cannot Sleep

I go to bed.

My body feeling tired yet so full of the past day.

I turn to the left and think about all the good things I achieved today.

Cut out the bad things where I might have gone wrong.

I still cannot sleep.

I turn to the right " my illuminated clock says 2am.

I imagine a scenario to help drift me off.

I am in a cold, wet and windy place.

I find solace within a warm shelter.

I snuggle up to absorb it.

Still, I cannot sleep.

I turn left again.

I no longer feel tired but I just don't want to get up.

Maybe if I don't care " I will fall asleep with peace of mind.

Just drifting off " then I get an itch that I just have to scratch.

I am back to where I began.,

I just cannot sleep.

Turn to the right again.

 

My clock says 3.45 am.

Did I get some sleep there.,

Did I dream.,

Or was it just my mind just ticking on?

I turn over again.

I can sense the daylight drifting in.,

And I am still wide awake.

How will I cope tomorrow if I suffer no sleep tonight?

I turn left, then right, then left again.

My clock moves on.

Suddenly I am awoken by my clock alarm.

I was asleep and dreaming good things.

Yet now I am ready to sleep.,

I have to get up.

My only hope is that all this will make me so tired for the next night.,

When I do have to sleep!

Reviews

[Solar]

The rhythm of the poem captures the tossing and the turning - ticks every tock!

[Christine Peters]

Thanks Solar,

The only reason it does is because it is true.

[Solar]

Perhaps the creative spirit is a sleepless one

[Christine Peters]

You got a good point there Solace.

I find my mind works best early morning but if I cannot sleep during the night – yet, come to think about it – it did push me to write the above.

[Solar]

There you go!

[Christine Peters]

Thanks Solace. You have given me much to think about!

[Christine Peters]

Sorry read it wrong.

Solar

[Solar]

No worries. Look forward to your reviews of my writings. Thanks.