All I Need Is A Sleep Poem by Joshua Yeldose

When my mind is unutterable and sad
Memories intervenes with memories
My dreams were all a cruel joke and lie
Of a jester named life
Now I am wide awake and the fancy passes by
For my yesterdays are dead, buried, unlamented.
Past a gaping girth, I try fly away
Thou catch me by any sly
A shattered mirror thou art,
I try piece it together, I bleed.
My love with broken wings
Hovers around thy shrine in dying breaths
While my spirit slumbered tranquil
under the shadows of giant poplars
Unaware the pace of things I beget.
Pain, that exquisite pain, they call divine
Consumes me as the clock ticks away
Oh solitude thou lost thy wits
Better reign someplace else than my sick heart
All thee do is heap fallen buds, never borne
Ay raincloud doth pour down in torrents
Wash and heal me for I am bled and bruised.
These thoughts all burning red, douse it
for here in my couch mindless I lie
Oh sleep come over and nestle me tight
Save, for love left me in abyss dumb, deaf and blind.

JOSHUA YELDOSE