Insomnia Poem by Lee Boueri

Insomnia.

In the hollows of the night
I lay with my elusive sleep
Partners in the dark
Listening to the world
whispering in the silence
A distant train,
A neighbours cat
Falling rain
.
We peer into In the darkness,
a blanket of black
It's tempting to walk through
to the recess of the mind
Where dusty roads unfurl,
another day
another time
another place
.
There are days there
we only see at night
Familiar paths once trodden
Laden with mistakes
A better father
A better son
A better friend
Doors we shouldn't open
Stairs we shouldn't climb
Things We've left unsaid
to people we've left behind
.
Its not safe to go there
I'll only risk a peek
I'll wait for better days
to journey down these paths
To creak the hinges of the past
and tempt seductive pain
.
As the dawn approaches
those paths begin to fade
My partner leaves
I'm safe again
in the morning's glaring haze