Insomnia Personified
Blue skies to dark nights
A lifelong routine
Day’s expanse of blue is a welcome sight
But when the night comes
And the dark cascades around me
It swallows the light in its ravenous, unforgiving mouth
Then the villain awakens
The big, bad, indomitable foe
The burglar of sleep
And a harbinger of love for the sunrise
A love born from a way to escape the darkness
To escape drifting off
Into a black whirlpool of recurring nightmares
Dark nights to blue skies
The dawn is my friend
It welcomes the restless and soothes night’s cold sting
The sting that materialized out of hatred for the ceiling
Always there
A wide square above
The only companion of wild midnight eyes
Eyes that play the victim of a trivial crime
The crime of loathing the sun's slow ascent
About this poem
This poem is about the recurring experience of sleepless nights. It embodies the thirst for sleep and distrust for night.
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Written on July 19, 2021
Submitted by ThoughtBird8 on March 17, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 141 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 9 |
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