sleep

At night you lay there dreaming about everything, and yet you can sleep.

You take a walk, it doesn’t help.

You try eating a little bit, that doesn’t help either.

You try taking a nice warm shower, all that does is wake you up even more.

You try pills, but all that does is make you body hurt more.

You try listening to music to get the thoughts out of your head, but they just put more in.

You try imagining you sleeping but something always turns wrong. In mine I get killed, chased, tortured, and I cant do anything about it.

You watch a little bit of tv thinking you’ll fall asleep but you never do. You just sit there staring at the tv with everything racing through your mind like the days go by in movies and there watching the traffic.

You try reading but you cant focus that long.

You lay there all night as time flies and yet come morning you have had no sleep in weeks

Author's Note

i couldnt sleep so i wrote this and yea i dont really remember what i wrote

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I had to learn to meditate to find sleep. Old brain would not rest. I understand the story in this poem. Lack of sleep can make us crazy. A excellent poem.
Coyote

[Rip the cowdog]

THE POEM WAS WRITTEN FROM EXPERIENCE, AND WELL PUT. THE BODY AND STRUCTURE OF THE POEM, IS COMPLETELY DESCRIPTIVE ABOUT INSOMNIA..... WELL DONE

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

What you wrote is a piece that almost any of us can relate to, I can!

[Tony]

This is also a cool piece.
You have a conversational way of writing that is engaging.
Write on!

[peace SiGN./index DOWN.]

cool poem.
love how it explains all the different things that come from not getting any sleep.
some of that stuff has happened 2 me before.
keep up the good work.

[John Stussy]

Captures the annoying monotony of insomnia very well. Good poem, it was an interesting read.

[clau]

hahah
You try imagining you sleeping but something always turns wrong. In mine I get killed, chased, tortured, and I cant do anything about it.
That has happened to me!
Good idea for a poem