Best Insomniacs Poems

Sounds that aren't there
Rattling inside my exhausted brain
Tossing turning
Thinking about yesterday
Tomorrow 
Things that will probably never happen
Heart is racing
I try to breath through my nose
Like a freight train it comes out my mouth
Please God calm my spirit
Give me rest
Breathing slows
Still sleep eludes me
Legs feel like...

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At first the words
The thoughts
The voices
A welcome change.
Like a neglected child
showing a new trick,
'Look, Look at me...
Look what I can do!'
Till you feel sick.
It is a nice visit of myself
Now the stay is over welcome
Please leave
I need to be numb
It is my own payback 
for...

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How easily we nod off at dawn
                      
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On a night when most are resting quiet in bed,
There are those of us this peace evades.
How we yearn for a chance to rest our heads,
To ease our minds, abiding in a quiet haze.
While some shall work throughout the night,
Our minds will race to unreachable...

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