Morpheus #2

[Pendragon]

MORPHEUS #2

I’m trying to sleep, but Morpheus has packed his bags and fled,
And when you’re not really sleepy, it’s very hard to sleep.
I toss and turn and writhe upon my bed—

I don’t think these are sugarplums dancing in my head!
I fall through a night that’s endless, dark, and deep.
I’m trying to sleep, but Morpheus has packed his bags and fled.

Oh, well. No matter what I order, he brings something else instead,
Rifling my dreams in search of something to make me weep.
I toss and turn and writhe upon my bed,

As Morpheus’ third-rate assistant muddles up my head.
Like Sisyphus, I roll my weariness up an incline smooth and steep.
I'm trying hard to sleep, but Morpheus has packed his bags and fled.

Nightmares ride by, a ghostly cavalry dread,
Conjured by the daemon assistant crouching at my feet.
I toss and turn and write upon my bed—

“Say, old boy, if you can’t do dreams any better, I’d just as soon be dead!”
“It can be arranged, if that is really what you seek.”
“I’m trying to sleep, but—“ “Morpheus has packed his bags and fled.”
“Yeah. So I toss and turn and writhe upon my bed.”

D.L. Harris
© 7/2/97

[Demian]

Pendragon--I enjoyed this one, esp. the tone as it built to the end:

As Morpheus’ third-rate assistant muddles up my head.
Like Sisyphus, I roll my weariness up an incline smooth and steep.
I'm trying hard to sleep, but Morpheus has packed his bags and fled.

Nightmares ride by, a ghostly cavalry dread,
Conjured by the daemon assistant crouching at my feet.
I toss and turn and write upon my bed—

“Say, old boy, if you can’t do dreams any better, I’d just as soon be dead!”
“It can be arranged, if that is really what you seek.”
“I’m trying to sleep, but—“ “Morpheus has packed his bags and fled.”
“Yeah. So I toss and turn and writhe upon my bed.”

D.L. Harris
© 7/2/97[/QUOTE]