I cannot sleep the night through
7 December 2015
Before break of dawn
Luminescence stirs me up
With traces of you
I follow the trails
Passive tracks in starlit steps
The walk to nowhere
Like a lost atom
Rotating in my own world
Eons from myself
You breathe into me
Through dreamtime that lies across
The rivers divide
We walk in shadows
In between dark and the light
Separate glances
Whirring like clockwork
In between what’s you and me
The moving fences
Wrestling with chaos
I cannot sleep the night through
Battles of moonlight
A day will soon rise
When sleep will be no longer
The waking Times shine
Angels Fall – Breaking Benjamin
Theory of a Deadman – Angel
Right away this brought to my mind the Bible Scripture https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032:22-31
Where Jacob wrestles with an Angel or God depending on how you look at it. Sometimes during restless nights when sleep does not come I know I am wrestle maybe with demons or perhaps with an Angel telling him/her I won’t let until I receive my Blessings.
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Thank you for this Deborah. I guess it would be akin to what I feel in this recurring dream which feels very real. Images 2, 3 and 4 are very similar to my dream and yes there is some wrestling involved between what one can call heavenly will and what is inspired by what I wish would change in the world.
Perhaps all of us go through those kind of battles and personify them to an extent. Curiously for me it feels very vivid, like actual battles. One of our fellow bloggers Eric writes about something that sounds strangely similar to that experience. Maybe we personify it much more when we feel more about the situation.
Thanks for sharing the quote. I did not have that present in mind but it somehow makes sense
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Great post.
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Thank you 🙂
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Wonderful, Geetha. It feels like my daily bouts of anxiety about getting up and going to work. and also about dreams so powerful that they won’t let you rest after you wake up.
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I know the feeling Eric. Thanks for your great comments my friend 🙂
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This two lines: Like a lost atom, Rotating in my own world are wonderful 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Since my early teens I have dealt with bouts of insomnia and even now i have nights when sleep does not come…when we have someone on our mind those daylight hours come before we know it…a great piece, Geetha! 🙂
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Thank you Thomas 🙂
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You are welcome, Geetha! 🙂
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such powerful words and touched by the details of the title.
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Thank you Mihran 🙂
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