Bed Time – Nicole Penn
You close your eyes
And play back your day
As if it was your last
Reviewing and judging every word
Every action
You said
You think you were too loud
But those are the bulldozers that are plowing your mind
Shoveling away the brutal parts of your day
The rocks and the gravel
Move to the side
And out of the corner of your eye
You spot a diamond
Amongst the rock
That moment
Where you made eye contact
With him
During the day
Where your stomach
Sank
You may have thought you day was bad
But that diamond just saved your sleepless night
From being
That of a sleepless day
I like it!! oh, what a cutie
ReplyDeleteCounting Sheep - David Romtvedt
ReplyDeleteToday twelve more American soldiers were killed
when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq.
No one knows why they crashed but they told us
how many died. They don't count the Iraqi dead.
I wanted to fall asleep and began counting the wars -
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. And these were only our wars not counting the little ones - Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Nicaragua. Each war began to blur into another. Still, I couldn't sleep. Refusing to give up, I kept counting. It's a constant battle to close my eyes and breahte quietly through the night.