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Sleepless Nights

A poem about a sleepless night

By Denise LarkinPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
Sleepless Nights
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A sleepless night

Flocks the mind

Writhing it blind

A futile state

The body can't take.

Tossing and turning

Trying to fall asleep

It's a battle

We can't mend

But try to end.

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Slept

A few hours

Maybe two or three

A forceful dizziness

A whizzing brain 

A foggy mind

Unbalanced

And bouncy

The sleepless night

Robbed our minds.

The day is doomed

Shattered and corrupt

The sleepless night

Has ruined our plight.

Nightfall arrives

The day is over

Sleepless shatters

Our eyelids 

Closing them

Tight.

A sinking

Befalls us

Into

A deep dreaming state.

Sleep has finally 

Conquered

Healing the mind 

Forcing it to unwind.

©️ Denise Larkin 2020. All Rights Reserved.

This poem was also published medium.com

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About the Creator

Denise Larkin

A writer of a BA with honours (2.1) in Arts & Humanities recently gained a Creative Writing Master's Degree. She writes poetry, fictional short stories, and is the author of the Time to Run series, Darkness and The Non-Human.<aT.

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