I lay awake
Not because
I choose to.
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Insomnia is very annoying. Your excellent poem does a fine job of probing this disorder.
I suffer from this ‘disorder' for quite some time. So this poem depicts my own experience. Thank You Evelyn
you have expressed the state of insomnia in such sleepless words and dazed phrases and hopeless images ---it is a torture to endure insomnia and your poem captures the particular dark cloud that hovers over those who cannot sleep
I feel so proud to write a poem worthy of attention of Susie and share it here. This is essentially why I am quite happy to read her comments, which, as always, is analytical and doubly inspiring.
Sleep stays away. I welcome something permanent. Does she, too?