Sleepless
One night exhausts another,
layering sheets and blankets,
wrinkles and folds. Oh, the
body wants to still the mind,
and shedding this weight,
float freely through the night.
Your memory of sleep’s touch
withers as you lie there,
absorbing the fan’s pattern.
How wonderful, then, to finally
drift across the room and settle
in that relaxed corner, among the
cobwebs and shadows and those
frustrated hours now set aside.
O at the Edges 
Sums up what I’ve been experiencing lately.😴
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It is all too familiar to me!
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As there is no reference to Sullustani arms dealer Nien Nunb from Star Wars…worst poem ever! 🙂 Apart from that…excellent poem!
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I tried, I tried! But Nien Nunb just didn’t make the cut. Maybe next time.
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Reblogged this on O LADO ESCURO DA LUA.
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Thanks for reblogging.
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The feeling of finally drifting off to sleep is like no other.
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So true!
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I like this one!
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I hope you’ve not fallen victim to this malady, Andrew.
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Thank you, Robert. Sadly there have been many times where I’ve had trouble sleeping. But there have been good night sleeps too.
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Let us hope for many more of the good nights.
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Amen.
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Your poems never put me to sleep, but there’s a tonic in this one… I hope! 🙂
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I’d love it if they would put me to sleep!
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Poetry is the last thing that I would want on my mind if I was going to sleep. I would be up all night just trying to stop thinking to the next good line that I have to get up and turn my computer back on to write down. And this is after I intentionally turned it off so I could stop writing and go to sleep.
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I neither read nor write poetry before going to sleep. The mind takes off, and I can’t sleep. But I have on several occasions revised poems while dreaming – and the revisions were spot on!
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I have done dream revisions too, but some of them turn out to be stinkers.
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That’s the problem with dream-tevision. 😀
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Thanks Robert. a wonderfully relevant poem for me at the moment, and beautifully and laconically worded. Shall be pinning this one on my bedhead, and read it before I go to sleep….along with the help of my pain killers….
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Let’s hope that the poem will augment the pain killers and that you’ll sleep soundly!
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I know those nights…(K)
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Too many! Most…
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It seems that way these days.
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Especially loved the line ‘absorbing the fan’s pattern’.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m riding that wave…
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Me also! It stopped me in my reading flow with a “oh nice”. Great verse Robert O!
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Thanks, Diana!
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I used to sleep so well but not any more. What went wrong and why? Sleep itself is now but a dream. Excellent opening line.
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Thank you. I wish I knew where the good sleeps went, as I’d like to retrieve them.
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I like the poem.
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Thank you!
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The body wants to still the mind–oh me so many nights. Lovely poem.
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Once the mind starts rolling we’re in trouble!
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I know!!! arr.
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Wonderful poem. I really liked it!
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Thank you, Tahnee!
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insomnia is a challenge to conquer. I have learned not to eat carbs (like a cookie) at night ..which I thought would relax me but which only energized me. So now I am trying fats…like big heaps of healthy butter on a couple of crackers and that is relaxing me more. Drowsiness is such a sweet feeling.
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I fall asleep easily, but wake up after a few hours. Sometimes I’ll fall back asleep, but often I’ll be awake for hours.
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hmm, do you get up after you wake up? I heard that is what u r supposed to do.
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Oh, I’ve tried just about anything you can think of.
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I bought myself the computer glasses to dim the blue light which they say will keep us awake. haven’t noticed a difference yet. i have resigned myself to this schedule. sleep nightly from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. but yours sounds like a weird cycle. you might try a sleep specialist.
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These days my schedule is much more flexible, so it’s not the problem that it was when I had a demanding job.
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The imagery is subtle but it’s strong, thank you for this beautiful poem.
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Thank you!
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I think this is really well done. I can relate to every aspect of this poem. I feel as if i live it on a nightly basis.
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Thank you! I, too, live this.
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I like this and I have to everything dark to get the best sleep and since I wake up sometime in the middle of the night I have to stumble to write lol.
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I’m so pleased you like it. Thank you!
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Ugh. Have you been watching me?
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Ha! An all too common malady!
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