Saturday, February 4, 2023

Elusive Sleep

 Dead of night

Sleep walks off in a huff

Wide eyed, I stare at ceiling

Thoughts, those uninvited guests

Come and go, mill around

My helpless mind flounders

Toss and turn, toss and turn

Night hours stretch ahead

A desert without oasis

An abandoned old house

Waiting, waiting, waiting

For a fresh-lit dawn.


Dreams flee from eyes

Thieves on the run

Fears and tears

Tip toe along

Dogging footsteps

Hapless mind surrenders

Toss and turn, toss and turn

Night hours stretch ahead

Road to endlessness

Stark, as a razed garden

Waiting, waiting , waiting

For fresh lit dawn


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