Sleep Now

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shiz...everyword leads to a new word or path.. and who the hell am i not to follow it...

katylove~

Sleep Now

  Sleep Now

 

I go to sleep as the night grows small

In the darkest hour before dawn

When I know I’ve grown so tired

I can’t hold on

 

Words, inside my mind I hear

Everybody hurts, everybody cries

Everything just seems so wrong

 And every letter lies

 

Outside the air is still and cold

And the beast closes in, I don’t care

I just know I’m going places

Who knows where

 

Gentle fire breathes onto the horizon

It’s time for dark to go

Leaving gritty specks of night

 sandy man's memo.

 

Sleep the sleep of the righteous

I ran as long as I could

 Finally the cloaked figure caught me

 And it felt goooooood~

 Katylove©2009

The real poem starts here~

Sleep cheats time. I don't like it. I go to sleep thinking of poems yet to be written...is this word right? does that one fit? wrapped around shards of letters and grafts of words...and finally I release them.. it feels good..like a tender pause...a sweet drink of cold water...
and in the morning light, I pick through the words and make them right,..moments of clarity...moments of insanity... one and the same...
and I realize this is the true poem.. the true voice.. yet I post the ones I struggled over because they caused such a fucking fuss how can I not…afterall they are the road i traveled to get to these...

Katylove©2009


 

 

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laurilang5 commented on Sleep Now

03-26-2010

Beautiful. ...."to sleep, perchance to dream"..

Artie commented on Sleep Now

10-18-2009

I came back to read this once again- still love it

Lucho commented on Sleep Now

09-30-2009

When I read most of your work, I feel that you are lost. I wish I could show you the way but for the last 2 months I have not been myself. I have finally started to make changes. You will be in my thoughts.

romina983 commented on Sleep Now

09-24-2009

your poem is great!!!i enjoyed reading it!!!i have just come across this site so i have a lot of things to learn about poetry from all of you and in time i hope to write better comments!!!keep writing and i will keep reading!!!

poeticprose commented on Sleep Now

08-28-2009

You have created a suggestion of mystery and it is seductive. Very nice, evocative.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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Sleep Now 10
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My Lovely 8
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My Current Affair 9
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See You See Me 8
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