What if you slept ...
What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I haven’t slept all night in years,
Pain, nightmares, fear, hot/cold/hot/cold.
PTSD. More nightmares. FULL MOON!
Listen to true crime podcasts.
Stomachache, heartache,
children & grandchildren ache, bite my cheeks,
cough, hurt all over, sadness, regret, anxiety, thirsty,
WORRY, pray without ceasing,
existential crisis, ageing horrors, melancholy,
reading, listening to books, soothing music,
cats making scary noise sounds,
poetry circling in my brain,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
children & grandchildren ache, bite my cheeks,
cough, hurt all over, sadness, regret, anxiety, thirsty,
WORRY, pray without ceasing,
existential crisis, ageing horrors, melancholy,
reading, listening to books, soothing music,
cats making scary noise sounds,
poetry circling in my brain,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
2 comments:
Love this poem! I can relate to much of this...
I too have a lot of bad nights, and no night is ever really good.
When I had access to them, I used to batter and fry unopened day lily flowers.
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