Sleep Talking

procrastination isn't all bad...

 

All the pretty urban sprawl

Growing and engulfing all

In dancing lights

In cancerous nights

A world contained beneath a wall

 

I’ve toured this country on a bus

On roads that ran away from us

The heavens need

Some space to breathe

And keep the sun ‘tween dawn and dusk

 

You cast aspersions on their dreams

Yet revel in the things they make

For restless children never sleep

But unleash their minds while still they wake

I urge you, value every breath you take

Good providence must at times allow

For a desert headstone for a lake

Just as it partakes in idle lies

To comfort children when a child dies

Or a sparrow, or a tree

Your mind cannot forever ache:

As you are now, so once was I

Now view the lights divine from the sundering seas

And wipe the wonder from your brow

An exciting place to live and die

So heed my prays and let it be

 

Don’t let them tear the skylines down

Let’s run away and out of town

We’ll find a place

And time to waste

Just promise not to make a sound

 

And so I say “To each his own”

Some may choose to live alone

Amidst the crowds

Their voice drowned out

But I prefer our lonely home

Author's Note

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Reviews

The first line is brilliant because it really draws the reader in. I love the rhyming and how it's not forced.
My favorite line: "Just as it partakes in idle lies".

The only thing that I find that you could change is the complexity of the last stanza. It seems too simple compared to the other stanzas that have more advanced words and details, etc. But the last line is very good; an excellent way of closing up the poem.