Needing sleep

 

When was the last time you fell off the ceiling

Drank from a glass that was more or less dry

Stood in a crowd when you should have been kneeling

Jumped off the roof before learning to fly

 

Ran in a circle with never an ending

Sat in a chair where the arms were too tall

Straightened an accent of far eastern trending

Dialed a phone without someone to call

 

Climbed up a hill that was flat as a table

Sang in the key of an unopened lock

Found that your nightmare was only a fable

Started to roll but forgot how to rock

 

Clung to a thought that you can’t recall thinking

Tied your left shoe when it didn’t feel right

Washed a new sweater and found you were shrinking

Set your alarm for a different night

 

Walked to the bath when the water was running

Paid for a Bill though his real name was Jack

Hid from the moon while your sister was sunning

Went on a trip but forgot how to pack

 

Wrote out a poem that everyone hated

Hid in a corner where spiders would play

Answered a question your heart had negated

Rented a room but had no place to stay

 

These are just words of a mind without sleeping

Some are confusing and some they are not

Please do not ask why this poem I’m keeping

There is no reason or I just forgot

 

Sometimes this happens and words begin flowing

Making no sense but who cares at this time

Merely for practice but not really knowing

Just a collection of words that may rhyme

 

Author's Note

I got very little sleep last night........

Reviews

[Angelove]

I feel you in this poem. Keep writing, even if it makes sense or no sense. Beautiful words!

[willweb]

Thank you so very much for your kind comments and for the friend request. I appreciate your visit.

[Soren]

My friend this echo's feelings that most of us have constantly. How many times I have written poems that people hate. How many times felt that I was going against the flow, out of place. This was a wonderful flow of thoughts set in great rhyme culminating in the a feeling of being aimlessness, being lost and not in place. There were so many great lines in this that I won't try to list them.

[willweb]

Thanks my friend. Seems I write a lot of things people don't like but I am thrilled you liked this one. I got a little carried away.