Sleep’s Long Night (Audio)
This is a great idea. I've really enjoyed listening to these.
This is a poem of mine that's in part about my childhood fear of falling asleep.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzBSbmfokRjnVHd0VG8wZ2k1ZVBrWmY2cTdVT29MQ3NKMUI0/view?usp=sharing
@DaveK
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Counting sheep
Avoiding sleep
Burning bright the lamp that's glowing
deep with wild, elusive thoughts
my mind so longs to keep
And if I tarry
I shall marry
all my fleeting discipline to
wary, old fixations that
my mind has failed to bury
Days expend
with such a friend
as time, for even she cannot
suspend the timed arrival of
the never-ending end
Bitter night
of unknown height
Place so deep within that scarcely
light can make its way to come
surround me with its might
Come to stay
Eternal day
one that I have fashioned up to
fray my understanding by your
firm, unyielding sway
Righter sweep
Sower reap
Out of darkness lead, 'til like a
sheep, I've left the lion's mouth
of blackish deathly sleep
All-Consuming Fire
Broken Hearts
Kindle sparks
Flames begin to grow
Charring, brooding
All-Consuming
Fiery embers glow
Dancing, leaping
Melting, seeping
Rising flames ascend
Hearts unfolding
Eyes beholding
Fiery trials expend
Flames extinguish
Pains relinquish
Giving up control
Softened hearts
Create new starts
Formed to another's soul
Re-created
Consummated
Bonds that can't expire
Hope's the spark
Within the dark
So Love must be the fire