i lie in bed restless thinking why have i spent all these nights awake and what am i meant to do with all this extra time. i ask myself these questions every once and a while but the answers never come. tonight i lay here and odd things enter my head like peaches, library sinks, i think about lies and oil changes, i think of bald heads and hairy backs, i think about cowards then i wonder how dare these thoughts waste my time. then my lips part as i say out-loud " i should have checked if he had a heart beat"....and for some reason this brings me peace and just like that all those thoughts disappear and i can hear the rain again it has been falling steady since midnight and i now know that the rain will not turn to snow like promised, so i pull the blankets closer to me as i listen to it fall hoping that somehow my eyes will begin to close and i will sleep...
5 comments:
so beautifully written and so much I can identify with.
you have an incredible way with words.
you are so blessed to have a gift with words and images and to bring the two together so beautifully.
i was restless in bed last night, so this strikes a chord in me.
will you please write a book.
i need to learn how to do that, seriously!!! i spy a magnificent lamp post despite the dark night :)
I just ate some peaches less than an hour before seeing this poem!
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