Kim Van Breda Poet Rhyme

Sleeping Pills

SLEEPING PILLS

life feels thick- I do not speak
doped from last night’s pills
exhaustion floats
like mahogany smoke
wrenched from a deep dark
sleep

shower spikes splice like shards of ice
into a lucid gaping awake
it cannot engage freeflowing
boats against uphill streams
of sanity

lights burn bright
and Ghecko’s 
take fright
after another
insomniac night

sleeping pills pull punches again
sluggish white paste that sits in 
my brain  
with stoned bones 
weak blood foams
in a head that 
feels like clay

dancing dreams dipped 
with deep distant sleep
meander and stray 
far away






© Kim van Breda—12 September 2015

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Jadazzle United September 12, 2015 at 4:21 PM I have had sleep problems since my hubby had cancer surgery in 2013 and with other life issues recently I am trying herbal tablets in the hope of getting 7 - 8 hours ... now there is always poetry writing to while away the midnight hours lol