Sleeping Awake Poem by Barima Basoah

I lay down silently,
and it's raining on my body.
I feel the water flow in my body,
not cold but soo hot like a burning furnace.

It is overflowing,
and I am flooded inside me,
my heart is flooded now,
with your heavy rain.

My mind is blowing,
with wild storm, thinking of you,
like destructive thunder and lightning,
for it's heavily clouded and very dark too.

Your love is like the misty rain,
coming softly but flooding the river,
you are running in my mind,
and I am losing my head.

But I can't close my eyes,
for a sleep for fear of ending it all,
though it's late, it's also hard,
I wish to wake up seeing you beside me.


From the collection: LOVE EXPERIENCES