I've been running from sleep.
It keeps in pace, steadily at my back.
I'm hunting for restlessness.
Sleep must soon attack.
I keep running, thinking I can't turn back!
zzzz zzz zzz
...No! Wait! I'm back! I'm back!
As I lay in bed, between a leaning room's cracks...
I think to myself...will my room detatch itself in my sleep?
Not really caring, soon to be counting sheep.
Sleep is a game, and I might finally win!
Yet, still I fight it; not wishing my battle done.
I've fought with sleep so much...I think I may be done.
After all, sleep makes "tomorrow" sound fun.
I unlace my running shoes, and 3, 2 ,1..............................
2007-12-15 05:27:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Then...Ha!
I'm back another day!
Back, back, back!
Back is the insomniac!
Back to another day!
Travelling further from sleep.
I think I've come back this time to stay!
But, no. Sleep calls me in its subtle way.
2007-12-15 05:29:40 · update #1
The insomniac then rests his eyes until tomorrow.
Will I be an insomniac on the morrow?
2007-12-15 05:31:18 · update #2
This one is really good. You always ride the fine line between normalcy and the abyss. Very nice. TD
2007-12-17 09:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great poem about insomnia...great images, and you end it quite nicely!
You're being answered by a chronic insomniac...24, sometimes 36 hours of 'awake' at a stretch, then 1-2 hours of sleep and here I go again with another round....
I just flat went to a doctor for that bull...insomnia wrecks the body's physiology, depletes the B complex vitamins, and leads to a lot of suicides.
Elysabeth...poemhunter
2007-12-15 13:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Elysabeth 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats catchy... I like your usage and creativity with the layout provided by Yahoo. Good work!
2007-12-15 13:50:42 · answer #3 · answered by gklein99 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people suffer from insomnia i recommend you try to dismiss everthing negative from your mind you can do it by meditation and yoga it worked for me you should'nt take things hard and simply your life.
2007-12-17 15:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Sina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wonderful wonderful wonderful all of your poems r great but i love this one especially because the way that it is laid out and put together is just just WONDERFUL i love your work
2007-12-15 14:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if you keep running from it to escape your sorrow.
2007-12-15 13:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by cv_2004x 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋