Insomnia Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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Dónall Dempsey
Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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Insomnia

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Even sleep
has fallen asleep

leaving me awake
guarding it

with my consciousness.

Pain gnaws
at my bones

nerves...slithering snakes
bite my mind.

I watch its slow paralysis

thoughts and dreams
in death throes.

Then the stillness of stillness.

The hours
mock me.

Laugh at me.

I cry tearless tears.

Birds open
a door into dawn

with their
voices

then
(lock) (it)

leaving the night & I

trapped in this
somewhere else

of nowhere.

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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