Another Sleepless Night in Paradise

By Robert Breaker III

copyright 2003

 

 

Another Sleepless Night in Paradise

By Robert Breaker

Written in July of 2003

 

Another sleepless night in Paradise,

Or so that say it's so.

But I have found it Hell to be

As sleep will not come nor go.

 

I toss and I turn without end,

Always wishing I could dream,

Finally I almost find it,

And then I roll over and hit a beam.

 

Sleep is so alluring to me,

I long so much to reach it's bliss,

Yet all night awake I am,

And my desired goal I miss.

 

Dogs barking, Crickets creaking,

All make me want to kill,

So many noises in the night,

I find sleep to me they do not will.

 

The heavy sheets that cover me,

Too hot and then too cold,

Then I fear for the bed bugs,

That bite when you sleep, I'm told.

 

The more I try to get some rest,

The more it flees with haste.

I finally get off to sleep,

But nightmares make it a waste.