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A Man in a Room, and other poems - 21. Night Thoughts

Poem No. 56

 

Life is only the chance to live.

 

 

 

Poem No. 57

 

People rush from popcorn to polish,

from socks to scarves;

People in shopping rudeness,

in and out of F. W. Woolworth.

 

 

 

Poem No. 58

 

Night thoughts

pour from some daytime hiding place boldly

speaking frankly of life's dangers fraught

teasing me with what could be, if only

I had more than a mere nighttime thought

 

To stand and fight is all I have

when they seek to crawl into me.

Nothing matters, nothing that I have

when night thoughts slide into me.

To stand and fight is all I have.

 

Those doubts and worries abound

saying: "Do something; get up; get a life"

screaming in my ear till I shake from the sound

how I'd like to remove them with a knife

those worrying doubts, which abound

 

To stand and fight is all I have

when they seek to crawl into me.

Nothing matters, nothing that I have

when night thoughts slide into me.

To stand and fight is all I have.

 

Life's a dream, don’t they know

man is man with fault and fear

to be perfect is not human, so

why do we hold the ideal yet dear

when life's a dream we all know.

 

To stand and fight is all I have

when they seek to crawl into me.

Nothing matters, nothing that I have

when night thoughts slide into me.

To stand and fight is all I have.

 

 

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I find myself sitting by the window, quite stunned by these. Poem 58 shouts at me, it does not sneak slowly into the mind. It will be there with me in the day and the night. 

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On 12/30/2017 at 5:14 AM, Parker Owens said:

I find myself sitting by the window, quite stunned by these. Poem 58 shouts at me, it does not sneak slowly into the mind. It will be there with me in the day and the night. 

@Parker Owens Thank you for reading and commenting, my dear friend. 

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