Thursday, January 7, 2010

staring at the keyboard wont get me a title. ok. i'm leaving this space blank.

and though i both tire and despair
i am back where i began
with less determination
less hope
sleep will elude me
as it does
but hopefully for only a short while longer
and so i dedicate this time to you
to us
to freedom from the future
and at this juncture
where there is nothing left but tomorrow
i join with you
in quiet celebration
of yesterday

19 comments:

secret agent woman said...

But you didn't leave it blank. I am incapable of having no title. It pains me.

As for the poem, sleep eludes me far too often.

Diane said...

I hope you sleep tonight. I hope we both do. Sweet dreams, love.

Brian Miller said...

alll our yesterdays led to tomorrow...celebrate away. and who needs sleep anyway?

Beth said...

I crave a good nights sleep. It always eludes me. Maybe one day... because as you say, there is nothing left but tomorrow.

Love this!

Fragrant Liar said...

I tire and despair too. Good GOD, I need to get some sleep tonight! Since I returned to work, after a two-week break, I can't enforce my own go-to-bed rule. I'm like a 12-y-o kid, afraid to miss out on anything, only NOTHING is going on worth staying up for.

I celebrate the yesterday when I could sleep, and aspire to the blissful freedom of sleep tomorrow. Probably not what you meant, but that's how your words spoke to me.

LaughOutLoud said...

wow.

Unknown said...

the marriage.

Marla said...

Beautifully written

Petra a.k.a The Wise (*Young*) Mommy said...

I dig it.

SparkleFarkel said...

This is not a drive-by. Mind if I check my coat? Thanks! *clicks "Follow" button.

Be be better soon? Hope so. I, too, am like rust: I never sleep.

P.S. How curious! The word verification is "alike"!

justsomethoughts... said...

secret agent - i try. doesnt always work.

diane - i did. not as much as i'd have like to. but i hope to get some more tonight.

mr miller - i do. i do, very much.

beth - thank you. i'm thinking about popping a pill. thinking. but thats very notsogood.

fragrant - i should just cut and paste your message. but thats not nice. so i'll just say "ditto"

lol - dammit! stop taking all the space. other people have things to say too.

noelle - beautiful. though who knows if i'm reading it right.

marla - thank you. (give em hell!)

petra - thank you.

sparkly one - all aboard! thank you. but i need sleep. and word verifications are the hand of the internet gods. they know.

J Cosmo Newbery said...

Not sleeping is the pits. Hope you are better now.

Captain Dumbass said...

There's a lot of pressure behind a good title. Unless you just come up with one of those perfect ones.

Debralee said...

A poet...awesome. I am too. Someday I will post some of them too.

IB said...

This is a great bit of writing; one of your best. Maybe not sleeping is good for your poetry(?).

Everyday Goddess said...

When I can't sleep, I contemplate all the things I would love to do if only I had the monetary freedom and then I fall asleep. Works for me.

Anonymous said...

Sleep is overrated!

justsomethoughts... said...

j cosmo - some days are better than others. thank you.

mon capitan - you dont seem to have that problem...

debralee - thank you. no time like the present.

ib - thank you. high praise indeed. but i would rather the sleep. i'd shut the rest of it off in exchange for feeling normal.

goddess - all sorts of things going through my head. mostly nonsense. i just wanna sleep.

eternally distracted - only for those that get enough of it.

lucky paragon said...

i wish i was lucky enuff to have that liberty...of staying up when I am not sleepy anyway......

some lives are ruled...you know...and i miss the freedom of being just "myself"
your words forced me to rethink my life.....thanks!!