04/08 Insomnia

Sometimes at night
You lie awake
And you think
For heaven's sake
I can't get to sleep
No matter how I lie
I toss and turn
And think just why
Why won't your brain
Turn off and rest
Instead of worrying
Over what it thinks is best
Or what it thinks
Is the very worst
Of giant evil dogs
And balloons that burst
Of loved ones killed
And laptop stolen
Of my rabbit suffocating
On a piece of pollen
On hyperventilating children
Your looking after
Of a leaky pipe
A split rafter
And of a heated mind
And raking nails
Of a witches brew
Using puppy dogs' tails
Of Shakespeare's ghosts
And his play unnamed
It's bad luck you remember
To speak it, be shamed
Superstitions come out
In the dread of night
When your common sense
Has taken flight
You are just a simple husk
A shadow of you
And you cannot sleep
Because all these things are true