Sleepless
Spirits calling forth…
In a still of kitchen chanting hums
From within the pitch
A crossing, through thicket hallways of the deep
The molasses of whisper flows over
Sounds of spectral drums
A dose of drowning grips the limbo
Where quiescence among the bed of midnights thoughts
Here, I lie conscious craving only sleep
And drip drop shadows sink
Lull me with a scourge of every hour
Outside thresholds waiting vultures
Abiding for my heinous fate
Softly, the hissing
Languages of white noise tongues
Among the mesmerized
Once again, the silence breaks
And a static demon speaks
Phantoms of the five am
Trumpets grim
The coming betwixt the shade and sill
A possession creeps
Of light that bleeds even further in
And chills of cold sweat zombie wakes
To the dawning of the frazzled dead
This curse of sleepless nights
Spirits have cast upon me, aches
Called Monday, or the after morning
And my night before last a blur that blends
The horror with this hex
Is that it goes on for twelve
Or more that's sure too be tormenting
But, the day of last or I the lost
When can we ever have our proper end?
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXBCAXXB XCXXDXXE XXXXXX EXXEDX XXDXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,066 |
Words | 197 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8, 6, 6, 5 |
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