Best Lifesleep Poems
The twilight comes, its nearly time
For darkness to fall - the fear is all mine
Another night follows as sure as day
Four hours sleep if I’m lucky I’d say!
Look for excuses to not go to bed
But I need my sleep let it be said.
Up the long stairway I slowly move
Not wearing slippers the carpets so smooth
Into the bathroom, the nightly chores
Now did I remember to lock all the doors?
Into my bed, out with a book
Maybe an hour, I’ll just take a look
No more excuses, it’s time to lay down
Up with the duvet and on with the frown
Will I lay here for hours, just like last night?
Or maybe this time it’ll work out just right!
She drifts in the Sea of Apathy,
floats in the vast Ocean Of Ennui,
for life she's lost the capacity,
only in sleep she finds herself free.
Reality she has rejected,
fleeting days are too swift to embrace,
in sleep she feels safe and protected,
life's troubling and too hard to face.
Disengaged, distant and absent,
precious moments are passing her by,
her soul is a chamber of torment,
even she cannot understand why.
This is the darker side of me.
I used to sleep and dream
Bright colors....and images,
As a young man...
A new soldier....
I would sleep just so
I could dream....
Missing noon meals....
In the Mess Hall.....
Hungry not for food....
The sun would fill my room
With light....
That I covered with a pillow
Until the afternoons shadow
Filled my room.
Exhausted....
Excited....
I would bath
And shave and venture out
Of my barracks room...
At night.
I was seventeen.....
And I knew where
The hole in the fench...
In the Motor Pool was...
I remember the smells
Of beer and girls dancing
All night in clubs...
After hours....
No MP's in sight....
It was my own private adventure
Deep into the night.
Yes, I was handsome....
Though I did not see it...
I was too involved with
What I was seeing to
Know who I was at the time....
Just a young man
On an adventure.....
Of his own making....
Not knowing the power
Of my youth....
On Saturday parade grounds
I stood...and heard
Of Valor in Battle....
And Enemies fought....
I knew these men with
Ribbons hard won.
Not a one had a smile...
I felt in my heart
That I too had to go...
And test myself...
Not for medals or awards...
but I did like their shine...
But to see why these
Young men....
Heros of mine...
Slept until noon....
Not feeling hunger....
Twenty three months
Later...
Downed in combat nightmares....
I finally understood...
To sleep is so precious
To dream is so wonderful....
But it is the price....
I pay every night...
For going to war....
At eighteen...
On my own request....
I received my orders...
To go to Vietnam....
I don't regret my own
Request....
I too stood tall
On another soldier's
Saturday parade field...
Not smiling....
It's 2am and quiet now
but for the music from my speakers
and the traffic occasionally passing by
At 2am there's little movement
in my apartment except for my fingers
and the mice on their wheel, they sure do fly
When it's 2am the pull of the bed
is like a magnet, strong, relentless, inexorable
yet here I am again wide awake and pissed
At this 2am I'm left to wonder
of all the other 2 am's I dreamingly floated by
and I jealously think of the sleep that's missed
It's 2am and I'm wide awake
left with my music, traffic, and mice
but to be sound asleep sure would be nice
It’s 2am and this is getting old
Sitting here typing listening to sounds of silence
It’s 2am and I want sleep … any advice?
For all we have …
The moonlight is all we have…
For the sun does not shine in our world!
Let us make the best of whatever little we can see …
Our hearts are not kind… it beats faster than time…
The moments don’t let us wait to feel what we touch
Even the rain waits for drops to fall…
Our souls are wandering away… only our bodies stand tall..
I will sleep with memories… and you with indifference …
Our destinies will also sleep deep slumber … and wake in a separate dawn…
Till our souls meet….
I can not sleep now
To many thoughts in mind
Can not sleep at all
I have tried for hours
Yet I toss and turn
What can I do
How can I sleep
Turn off the thoughts
Let me get sleep
That is it
I will write
Until I sleep
How long
How many
SLEEP