Prayer Of An Insomniac

It's nights like these when my fears flare up

Echoeing quiet color across the sky

Casting dreams in the darkness,

Beautiful nightmares

haunting my lapses in consciousness

Alone, I pray to the demons of today

Hoping when they sprout wings,

they will carry my wishes on their backs

as angels of tomorrow

 

 

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Lovely... especially ....well

Lovely... especially ....well really, the whole thing!


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "