Writing
Poetry
“Insomniac” (2021)
I can’t sleep.
Every day I lay awake
Staring deep
Into my mind,
Slowly pondering
If I can find
The peace that always
Seems to lie
Just outside
My grasp.
I can’t sleep.
My body aches
With the pain of my past
And anxiety of my future
While it lends an ear
To the taunts and jeers
Of that voice
Which seems to ring
In silence
In the corners of every memory.
I can’t sleep.
If the sun is out
And the sky is blue,
Then the children should smile
As children should do.
But when the moon is awake
And the light is away,
Then together we seem
To forget how to beam
And the masks fall down
On our pale nightgowns.
I, too, am a child, so
I can’t sleep.
“Departure” (2021)
I’d like to leave my mind
For just a moment of respite.
I’d like to flash a light
Into the dark abyss of night.
If only these legs of mine
Could take me somewhere greater
Far from the existence
Unintended by creator.
Long road ahead
But eyes on the sky,
I’d drive nowhere
Arms held up high.
I just need to go
To somewhere else
For who I am now
Is not myself.