When Sleep Won'T Come Poem by David Whalen

Trepidation, perspiration
Preoccupation on one’s brow

Replace it with hope and anticipation
With keen elation… replace it now

Anxious moments, sweaty palm
Sleepless nights, heart beat hurried

Replace it with, the peaceful calm
of a mindset… cool…unworried

Don’t seek the sleep
When sleep won’t come

Just change the channels
Within your mind

Seek the thoughts
you want to keep

The peace you want
Is the peace you’ll find

Fixate upon one pleasant thought
Concentrate with all your might

And all the worries, and fears you fought
Will skulk away into the night

Fixate upon what you love
To all else become blind

Don’t seek sleep
When sleep won’t come

Just change the channel
Within your mind