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Barbara Swan Jul 2013
It is late, I should be asleep, but thoughts go swirling in my head
The day has been busy, work is done now, why can’t I relax?

Work done, not really! Never a time with nothing to do,
Relax is an unknown scenario, feet up, head back,  No Way!

Even if it could be, my clock would make me stand at attention
Guilty for the laziness running through my bones

Oh well, as long as there is a purpose for living, work will be there
So as I lie in my comfortable bed, let the busyness swirl, finally to sleep
Tomorrow is here
Matthew O'Dowd Oct 2018
It's that time again; when I lay here in the dark.
Staring at where you used to stay, beside me all night long.
Confusion makes it hard to sleep, when your brain is wrought with pain and grief.
Insomnia's an arduous mistress, when your not filled with sorrow.
I close my eyes again tonight, to be back here again tomorrow.
3am thoughts written with 4am hands
Bluelily Jul 2020
I wish my eyelids were heavier than
my thoughts
I wish my mind had shutdown and stopped
talking loud at night
I wish my day stopped acting weird
getting up tired and going to bed awake
I wish even I had a reason to sleep,
to snore out loud
I wish I were a better woman who could
run away from the paradise called Insomnia

— The End —