Insomnia Poem by Dmitri Davis

Shh, close your eyes and go to sleep...

You're lying awake, the room is different
The walls dissolve replaced by sky.
Hoizon blackening, twilight beckoning
as the clouds are stretching wide
Stars still shining, little holes that light
Is clawing to get through.
But hope is shifting, with the shadows
that are drifting on the ceiling as you move.

Shh, just close your eyes and go to sleep.
There is nothing to be afraid of...

Are you awake? Sour thoughts are dancing now,
all around your head.
Shoulders shake, chattering teeth.
The cold wind rips the covers from your bed.
The apparition, the eyes are digging,
Heart is pounding, eye lids will now close.
Your voice is failing, screams derailing.
And she stands so near to you,
Nothing is sweeter than the songs you're seeing,
Begging for the colder and she hides,
Floating, flowing, her soul is haunting,
glimmers shimmers white, lights breaking.
And fluid cries, she's reaching, reaching imploring,
Seething and haunting her with a feeling no one knows.
A kiss-like smile, that leaves you beguiled,
fading darkness and the whispers of her ghost.

Shh, there's nothing to be afraid of,
Shh...