My Monday Metrical Musings #190

I Can’t Fall Asleep

I wish to be stupid
To never have to think
Then maybe I can sleep through the night
And never wake up intermittently

For what other solutions can there be
To prevent me waking up during wee hours constantly?
Then the fact that my mind keeps
Churning
Swirling
Spinning
Turning!

All manner of thoughts about the day
That went by
Like a whirlwind
Or a hurricane
From Dhaka to Dubai

I want desperately to be rid of them
Oh please release me now!
Yet these thoughts accost me 24/7 and I’m
Tossin’ and turnin’
Without any salvation in sight!

Oh woe Oh woe Oh woe
Am I!

So I’m thinking maybe if I’m stupid
Then it’ll save me a whole lot of grief
The kind that keeps me up all night
Wrangling my soul from my being

Or maybe just maybe
I already am stupid
Stupid to let things bother me so
Stupid to think of things I can’t control
That now in turn control all of me
And my elusive sleep

How stupid I feel
How stupid indeed
I lose myself in so much suffering
So needlessly

All because I…

Can’t

Fall

Asleep!