Tag: Insomnia

Start and end the same

I start the day the same
As I leave it
Tired
Not by the hours’
Bells tolling
Three minute intervals
As harsh alarm
Rings echoes
Through thinning black
No I reach out
To feast my eyes
On silence
Once my lifeline
Now a tether
Tied to looking
Supposing somehow
Night brought miracles
Snooze
The only resting
Pause
Between panicked cries
For the world is cold
Blanket safety
Might bring happiness
In dreams
Lasting lifetimes
Over in seconds
Turning restlessly
To nightmares
Leaving me
Sleep-walking
Into the day
Tired
As I leave it
I start the day the same

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Unpack and put away

And so the passport goes away
Perhaps to come another day
To take me off to distant lands
There once again to hold your hand

But now I sit alone again
Know it cannot be the same
As when we walked out in the park
And held each other in the dark

Streets which rang with laughter true
Will never more be graced with you
At least not with the you I met
That you is gone her laughs are spent

For though we held in darkness tight
Each other on in to the light
That shadow which within you knew
Emerged when far away I flew

Its sickening tendrils clenched your heart
And sundered there we fell apart
No more to find that blessed place
Though always I will seek your grace

Once more the passport goes away
Perhaps to come another day
To take me off to distant lands
Where long ago I held your hand.