Can’t sleep, can’t stop thinking
Can’t stop worrying about the drinking
The bills, the wolf howling at the door
The need to always give that little bit more
Buster’s new shoes, Molly’s lose tooth
Worn out carpets on our worn out floors
Can’t sleep woes, Can’t sleep blues
If you know me well enough avoid me in the morning
As I’ll have the can’t sleep short fuse.
Insomnia.
Alison Jean Hankinson
Written today for d’Verse... we had to save a life on an issue…I chose can’t sleep which I am sure affects many people a lot of the time.
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I’m the same – and when you can’t sleep you get poems invading your head and you can’t sleep so you get up and write them down and then you can’t sleep…
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This poem really rang true – you write wonderfully.
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I love the flow of this…like the rhythm of that annoying ticking clock, counting off the hours of sleep lost.
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Eventually sleep will happen. And then those dreams. Nice description of what we think about when we can’t sleep and can’t do anything about what we’re thinking about.
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“If you know me well enough avoid me in the morning
As I’ll have the can’t sleep short fuse.”
Me too!!!
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Grrrrr. Hate it when that happens. Fortunately, not so often after retirement! 🙂
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I agree with Sarah, sleep is much more solid diversion all during my retirement (7 years this month). My sweet wife is only partially retired, so I still store at 6am to keep her company. My natural rhythms are stay up until 1am, sleep until 9am–but doesn’t get to happen very often.
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Late night TV is my best friend. It redirects my racing brain! Great write.
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ummm…this realm of the night is not for all but the creative people 🙂
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I can definitely relate to the insomnia, but my muse is a night owl. 🙂
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Ah….I almost did this one. Insomnia — the curse of hot flashes in the night and dreams that are indescribable and a trip to the loo and a dry mouth need for water and on and on and on. Short fuse in the AM — oh yeah. Some of us are morning people and some not! Definitely can relate here 🙂 Give me my morning elixir (drinking it now) before anything else! 🙂
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