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INSOMNIA: BLANK VERSE Awake at night alert to common sounds, the tick of clocks like drips from leaking pipes. enhance the feel of night when sleep is coy. Create a mental blank, and let the songs of crickets, birds to calm your mind and heart, the croaks of frogs to drift you into dreams. The floor above me creaks as someone walks across the wooden planks , someone like me a sleepless owl , a friend of the dark hours. Perhaps footsteps of people who work late , console you there are sleepless friends around who roam the night, enjoy this dark bouquet. You reverie or count the sheep or coins till sleep at last bestows you with its rest. ~Agatha Lai~
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