Day Into Night

PR Mace on Mar 5, 2011

Tags: Earplug, night shift, nurses, Shift Workers, sleep disorder, Sleep Masks, Sleeping pills

The life of a shift worker.

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Day into night.

Night into day.

For a twelve hour night shift.

I must sleep the day away.

Ear plugs tightly sealed.

To keep the noises out.

Of those who are wake.

Many up and about.

Sleep mask over my eyes

To seal out all the bright.

I doze inside a tunnel.

Deprived of all the light.

Night into day.

Day into night.

Such is the life.

Of those who work nights.

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atta muhammad on Mar 5, 2011
great share
atta muhammad on Mar 5, 2011
great share
atta muhammad on Mar 5, 2011
good one daer
UncleSammy on Mar 5, 2011
Good One
Christine Ramsay on Mar 5, 2011
It must be so difficult to work at night. I would never be able to sleep in the day. A very well expressed poem.
CHAN LEE PENG on Mar 5, 2011
Beautiful pic and poem- a natural flow of inner feeling..
Lerinti Sorin on Mar 5, 2011
very nice
anndavey650 on Mar 5, 2011
Ahh been there. Brilliantly expressed!
Starpisces on Mar 5, 2011
very good poem, Pam, some really work till no night no day.
rappeter13 on Mar 5, 2011
Brilliant.
Val Mills on Mar 5, 2011
I can sleep easily in the day, but I don’t think I would enjoy working at night. Nice work here, Pam
1hopefulman on Mar 5, 2011
Some times the night can be so long! Great poem. I love the picture.
Tulan on Mar 5, 2011
Don’t I know it. It’s really hard to keep out all the daytime noises, then can’t you just almost lie down on the hard floor and sleep about 4 o’clock in the morning?
FX777222999 on Mar 5, 2011
I can feel the day and night when I read your poem.
foxpete88 on Mar 5, 2011
great one, thanks.-
Melody SJAL on Mar 5, 2011
Reminds me of my two sisters who work as call center agents. Nice lines.
albert1jemi on Mar 6, 2011
Thanks for sharing
Ruby Hawk on Mar 6, 2011
Pam, I used to work the night shift. You get used to it but it’s hard staying awake all night. Love your poem.
Moses Ingram on Mar 6, 2011
Having just spent two weeks in hospital, part of it in intensive care, I have great respect for those who work at night, especially nurses and their assistants. I felt it hard to imagine that anyone could be so kind and compassate at 6 AM after working 7 the evening before. Your poem is beautiful.
1hopefulman on Mar 7, 2011
I forgot to mention, that the photo is so beautiful!
papaleng on Mar 8, 2011
Pam, just wondering how you’ve cope up with such rotating schedule. Another good poem.
nobert soloria bermosa on Mar 8, 2011
ooh…that’s really difficult..thanks Pam and the others like you who sacrifice for others
galore on Mar 8, 2011
very beautiful
Blue Buttefly on Mar 9, 2011
Day hour really not enough! Nice lines!
CA Johnson on Mar 11, 2011
What a great description on what it is like to work 12 hour shifts! Thanks for sharing.

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