Save The Zzzs, For My Friend Who Cannot Sleep Tonight Poem by RIC BASTASA

Skip the nap

Back to the womb
make your room
comfortable
make it dark and
quiet

make an amniotic
temperature
remember
when mother
was pregnant of
you and father
was putting his
ear
listening how
you kick

take a deep breath
wear your warmer
pink pajamas
keep an extra
blanket
on this cold and
damp night

keep your laptop
away
from bed
this bed
is only for sleep
(and sex
if you have
your partner
with you)

worry time
is daytime
tonight
is sleep time
do not
distract your
eyes
with the problems
of the DAY.

make your routine
same night
same sleep time
a nightime of relaxation
meditate
relax your muscles
it is sleep time
now


and do not forget
Work out
regularly

i tell you
tonight
will be your soundest sleep.