Sleepwalker On the Beach

Sleep walker on the beach.

Its happened again on holiday at Clacton-on-Sea, with my family. Somehow I managed to sleepwalk from my bunkbed that I was sharing with my brother and find myself in a strangers bedroom, in the hotel.

I was walking along the beach with my kid brother looking for shells, when I saw a razor bill, I bent down to pick it up, and that's the last thing I remember.

I feel  a hand on my shoulder shaking me, and a voice saying " wake-up wake-up". I'm looking into a face like my grans although its not her. She's wearing a bright pink dressing gown, has rollers in her hair, and a hair net. "who are you young lad ?" She smiles a toothless smile.

I rub my tired eyes and try to focus on her wrinkled face, "I'm Peter, I have been dreaming". I think to myself oh no, its happened again I have been sleepwalking, I see an old man asleep in the double bed, I must have tried to get into bed with them, joke! 


I tell her my dream, she smiles gently and says" lets go and find your family".
Oh no my lot are going to rib me something awful over this.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 8/1/2018 8:54:00 AM
This poem made me smile, and I can picture the toothless grandma quite nicely.
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Date: 8/1/2018 8:41:00 AM
Hi Jane, never been to Clacton-on-sea, enjoyed reading your story, should imagine sleep walking is quite frightening, well written. :))
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