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Sleep
Why do we sleep? What does it do?
Why is it important for me and you?
Sleep helps amend our waking pains.
And tries to cure problems in our brains.
Sleep may be hard if you are too warm,
Or if your mind is in a dreadful form.
So sleepless nights can be frustrating,
And the following day so irritating.
And how do we get ourselves to sleep?
Can it be done by counting sheep?
Or is it th...
Wednesday 27th July 2022 8:20 pm
Swallow Silence
Rest has been begging all afternoon
Soon soon soon, love.
Finally home in my top-floor abode
The end of consciousness is near
I slip into coziness and turn up the stillness
Oh love, I'm finally here...
But no.
Silence chokes
Tranquility cracks
Obnoxious noise intrudes
I feel teenybopper bass notes incessantly Bulging up from the floor be...
Saturday 18th June 2022 1:48 am
Consistency
The rings to my eye sockets,
Deep and purple.
I do not have the luxury of being lightning in a bottle,
I must make my presence known through substance,
Filling the sea of aspirations with my own,
Intoxicating and plentiful,
The key to any readers hearts,
My own suffering.
I will expose myself bare,
Devour my offering so that I may find release.
Unde...
Tuesday 26th April 2022 3:56 pm
Waking
Wake and feel,
wake and breathe..
Foggy thoughts..
Where? What? Is it?
Arrrrrrh….
Don’t endure this – it’s a waste. Live - try to live.
Possible,
move a little
move a little more.
Now.
And Again.
Thursday 24th February 2022 9:52 am
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