Insomnia Poem by Anderson Green

Oh, how I cannot sleep
the constant way I lay
it keeps me up
I cannot sleep

Noises all around
Cannot close my eyes
the harder I try, I fail
It has been five days

My wife wonders why I cannot sleep
She says, 'I toss and turn'
I agree
I have started to see things

I hardly eat
My wife thinks that I am ill
I agree
It has been nine days

No soul outside the wall of my mind
could trouble me
I can never walk out
I went to the doctors

They say that there is no wrong in me
I struggle home
wife sits in grief
she crys

I ask why she cried
she looks at me
she cries even more
then she hugged me, first time in ages

I lay in bed
I am still tired
I closed my eyes, finally
I smiled, I was finally happy.

My wife stood in the door
Tears keep going down her face
but with an undertone she said
'Goodbye, My love.'