Friday, May 10, 2013

Awake at Night


Running down the corridors,
Drifting ‘round the room,
Creeping o’er my coverlets,
Silent as a tomb.

Grisly, ghost-like images,
Tangled webs of thought,
Meaningless, nonsensical,
With feelings overwrought.

Why does sleep elude me,
Why visions strange appear,
Unbidden torrents sweep about
And produce unholy fear?

Where is that blissful rest?
Have I not earned the peace,
Of sweet, secure oblivion,
A respite from life’s griefs?

But fitfully I toss,
Barely submerged in gray,
And too soon dawns the clarity,
Of the sunlit, breaking day.



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