Sleep Is a Jester.

Sleep just keeps

leaping over my head

it has eaten

all the sheep

I was counting

in bed and now

they're all dead...

Headlights are

my next choice

floating like the

whites of two eyes

over the walls

of my room

as folks up

even later than I am

drive down my street

These I watch

counting them by twos

as they

briefly light up my room

through blinds that

are more 20/20 for sure

but the social lives

of all my

nieghbors are far less

then the snoozes

I get from

counting their headlamps

I have yawned

and excersized

my gaping jaw

at least fifty times

each one 

a false alaRM

When I was a small boy

I would simply

bang my head

to get tired

on my pillows

till dreams

overwhelmed me

but at my age

I'd surely get

a brain annuerism 

plus my neck is to sore

to be pounding

the feathers from

two pillow that feel

like two rocks

lumped together

sleep is truly 

a cruel jester

he teases then leaves

so the next time

he shows up

to mock me again

I'll kidnap him

and tie him to

my bedpost

and then I might 

be able to snore

while he grieves

for all the other

insomniacs he

will not be torturing

for a long while. 

Or I'll keep him around

playing loud music

and banging the walls

Until he begs to lay down

and be allowed some rest

that's when I'll trade him

a year's worth of good sleep

and when he grants me

my wishes I will free him

and toss him out on the lawn

so that all my next day's

will be good ones

with nary a yawn

Oh, hell it's almost dawn

perhaps a warm bath

will make me feel like crashing

but I always doze off in the tub

which risks drowning

and finding eternal seep

So I just got up

and my face got

a cold splashing

which I dried off

then I got dressed

and stired up some

wakes from a cup

of fresh coffee

but when I got 

into my car 

and starting 

driving to work

that damn jester

of sleep

was waiting for me

stretched out in

the back seat

and making me

very suddenly drowsy

as I pulled off of the road

feeling weary and lousy

so I closed my eyes just

for a minute or so

or at least that's

what I thought

cause the next thing I konw

I woke up in the dark

in time to go back to bed

where I wound up again

wide awake one a.m.

counting more sheep

in my head

as sleep's jester

slipped in with a smirk

that made all the

sheep all bleet

and then oops they

were dead!

leaving me still 

dead to the world

but not sleeping !!