Sleep explodes
When I was young
and something went wrong
people would say
For crying out loud
then over the years of life
I heard them say
Bloody hell and what the…………
now in my my older years
when terror comes in my sleep
I find myself crying out loud
Bloody hell
What the…………
is happening to me
one doctor says it’s a sleep disorder
here take a pill
another doctor says it’s PTSD
here take a pill
when the past implodes and my sleep explodes
I cannot see the face of fear
so I chill forget the pill
talk it out
and now I’ve found my words
i’ll write it out.
Andrew Ballard
2020
