Let me sleep

[Jerrybaldy]

Let me sleep, my sleep
of dead daddy,
where he
is quite unaware,
he is dead.
Let me sleep, my sleep,
where I awake like a flapping fish,
unable to breathe this air.
Let me sleep like I said something clever,
I have no more clever, unsaid.
Amputate
our bodies,
wherever the love
has spread.

[Delta40]

Powerful as usual and cast me into that place where I pray that I will never feel again.

[MystyrMystyry]

Midnight panic attacks and cold sweats signalling the dark hour of the soul

When I wake up like that I have to brew coffee and turn on the spotlight to pretend it's daytime - and then desperately try to find something to do

[PrinceMyshkin]

One of the best and most moving of yours, dear Jerry!

[the facade]

This was very poignant. Wow.

[AuntShecky]

This is very nice--reminds me of my all-time favorite piece of yours (so far): "I'm With You, Dad." ( I'd say more, and also read some of Delta's latest, but my two grandsons just arrived--my "old" pal and the newborn!) Catch you later, JerryB!

[Jerrybaldy]

Thank you Peeps. I usually hate it all by now, but the last four lines which maybe should be only two, I still quite like.