Poetry competition CLOSED 22nd June 2013 9:28am
WINNER
Wakry (Charlie)
Wakry (Charlie)
RUNNER-UP:
Page_Writer
Insomnia
Speak to the voices that live in your head
Proclaim all your secrets
So you can taste your bed
The fragile interior allows me
Reality unsettles me
As I try and come down from outer space
I’m just a displaced trace of nothing in its place
Calm your worn bones
Place them with me
Twist and distort the circles above your head
The tension you feel keeps you high
Rest your vertebrae let me sew you to sleep
Give me your veins and blood and such
I still can't find sleep
Why wont you let me erase?
Minutes and hours became my enemy
Slumber will come
Don't fret just reflect
A coma may come soon in this lack of your empty space
Lethargic if you may
Speak to the voices that live in your head
Proclaim all your secrets
So you can taste your bed
The fragile interior allows me
Reality unsettles me
As I try and come down from outer space
I’m just a displaced trace of nothing in its place
Calm your worn bones
Place them with me
Twist and distort the circles above your head
The tension you feel keeps you high
Rest your vertebrae let me sew you to sleep
Give me your veins and blood and such
I still can't find sleep
Why wont you let me erase?
Minutes and hours became my enemy
Slumber will come
Don't fret just reflect
A coma may come soon in this lack of your empty space
Lethargic if you may
Anonymous
"In Bed with Bird Chirps"
Another morning
blues the sky through
the flying curtains of
my window,
I can see the sun
wants to wake up
just as I’m about to sleep.
I can hear 40 birds talking
in trees as cliques
clicking and pecking
the sounds of the morning.
When they chirp
I know I should be asleep.
Another morning
blues the sky through
the flying curtains of
my window,
I can see the sun
wants to wake up
just as I’m about to sleep.
I can hear 40 birds talking
in trees as cliques
clicking and pecking
the sounds of the morning.
When they chirp
I know I should be asleep.
We live, we die, we yawn
Sleep, sleep, sleep all night,
just to stay awake.
Don't turn off the light,
dreams are all just fakes.
Sleep, sleep, sleep my dear,
don't you sleep at all!
Ravaging inside the fear
will make you fall.
Sleep so tight, fast asleep,
let your dreams haunt you.
Stay away and think of me,
dreams are lies, life is true.
Never will you sleep again,
all is lost in vain.
Insomnia is beautiful,
we must defeat this pain.
Sleep, sleep, sleep all night,
just to stay awake.
Don't turn off the light,
dreams are all just fakes.
Sleep, sleep, sleep my dear,
don't you sleep at all!
Ravaging inside the fear
will make you fall.
Sleep so tight, fast asleep,
let your dreams haunt you.
Stay away and think of me,
dreams are lies, life is true.
Never will you sleep again,
all is lost in vain.
Insomnia is beautiful,
we must defeat this pain.
Insomniac
Explosions in your ears
Light that weighs your eyes
Heavy and on fire
You can't even cry
Forever twist and turning
On pillows worn and dry
Bleeding through your thoughts
Of a sleepy kind of night
Shaking like your hungry
Walking like the dead
Trying to find a way
To beat this living dread
Pills that make you numb
Never work your sleep
They only keep you thinking
Of something sad and deep
So restless and exhausted
Taking off the cap
Fill your mouth with drugs
Sweet dreams insomniac
Not quite awake, not quite asleep,
you think you're fucked up,
you think you're a freak.
Questions whir in your head,
and the answers you seek,
The sleep will surely come,
it might not be now, it might not be next week,
Just try and relax,
try not to retreat.
In bed, you lay alone and you think,
you wonder when this curse began,
I just want to sleep, oh just one wink!
You may push yourself with any drug
To drive yourself to a tiring brink,
So maybe then your mind will quiet
Falling deeper and deeper, to sink and sink.
Insomnia carries a heavy cost,
In the days you're not quite home,
and in the nights you turn and you toss.
Hang in there dear friend,
for all is not lost!
Insomnia won't last forever!
Sleep will come, it has been star crossed!
you think you're fucked up,
you think you're a freak.
Questions whir in your head,
and the answers you seek,
The sleep will surely come,
it might not be now, it might not be next week,
Just try and relax,
try not to retreat.
In bed, you lay alone and you think,
you wonder when this curse began,
I just want to sleep, oh just one wink!
You may push yourself with any drug
To drive yourself to a tiring brink,
So maybe then your mind will quiet
Falling deeper and deeper, to sink and sink.
Insomnia carries a heavy cost,
In the days you're not quite home,
and in the nights you turn and you toss.
Hang in there dear friend,
for all is not lost!
Insomnia won't last forever!
Sleep will come, it has been star crossed!
Tick tock
tick tock
tick tock
your body doesn't run off a clock
you breathe in sweet never ending days
medication only plays soft song
your life nothing but a white haze
theres nothing you can do
just send the sand man his invitation
tick tock
tick tock
your body doesn't run off a clock
you breathe in sweet never ending days
medication only plays soft song
your life nothing but a white haze
theres nothing you can do
just send the sand man his invitation
