sue.evans

Can’t Sleep!

Can’t sleep, brain won’t sleep

Too many thoughts run deep

Come on cerebrum your day is done!

Unable to sleep is no fun!

Thoughts race around Brainshatch

Chasing sleep I cannot catch!

Why? Why does sleep evade me?

Too many thoughts to leave be,

Too hot, too cold, plans afoot

For a future currently caput!

A day producing unbearable ennui

Followed by a night that is sleep free!

How to tire this frontal lobe ?

At 3am - as dawn wakes the globe-

Allow the word smith to compose-

Allow this verse of words to dispose

The thoughts inside my head-

Record in rhyme from my bed!

Now with fingers tightly crossed

No more sleep from this night is lost!

As now I have recorded all of them! -

Whilst I couldn’t sleep - yes - at 3 am!