October 27, 2011

O wretched night, get thee behind me!
Lying sleepless on and on and eons on
ridiculous parade of thoughts endlessly 
looping through my brain followed by 
the horrible terrible miserable dream of
menacing Others pursuing on and on
no matter that I roused myself and shook
my head to jar it loose again and again
the awful thing onwent ‘til dawn and then
an hour or two of blessed peaceful lovely
longed for sweet curative happy sleep
before the horrifying jangle of the 
smugly self-righteous alarm.