I CAN’T SLEEP
I CAN’T SLEEP
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
I’m retreating
I’m falling
My deep
inside is struggling
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
My mind is deeply troubling
Deep inside me is agonising
I’m in agony deep
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
Regrets and conscience aside
turmoils and turbulence abide
I’m hurting inside
My hurt is deep
and I am bleak
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
However much I try
I retreat even more deep,
my demons alight even more.
Even if I weep
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
About this poem
Bereavement, anguish, guilt, insomnia, suffering , trying to find peace and Solace
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Submitted by badal.pal on July 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 520 |
| Words | 96 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6, 7, 6 |
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