Sleeping is my fire escape.

Drown me in warm waves of nevermore

I sleep to escape the notion that my coping

Mechanisms miss the mark

I sleep to pretend that I am the captain of my own ship

So drown me in the waves

Allow me to capsize and with eyes wide open tackle fear

And allow the water’s will to overpower my own

With eyes painting the landscape of my closed lids

I dream of damsels and dances with debutantes

And heroic acts

While I sleep

©2010 j. k. bradford

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  • LoveDoctor on Nov 12, 2010

    Awesome imagery. I love to sleep too. Well-done.

  • Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Nov 12, 2010

    @ L..D. :-)

  • Jimmy Shilaho on Nov 12, 2010

    Hmmmmmmh, me no.

  • LOVELYHONEY on Nov 12, 2010

    u r indeed awesome my dear
    your imagery i so endear ,
    that your words
    took me back in time
    once upon a time ,
    was the ship
    TITANIC,
    none slept owing to the panic ,
    none wept
    for nothing could be done,
    greed over came some
    and
    then ere the Titanic sank t
    They too had been done

    sleep my friend ,
    for tomorrow will come
    and when you awake
    my life would have become .

  • LadyElena on Nov 12, 2010

    Beauty Poem – but ain’t no one drowning you in the waves. :)

  • Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Nov 12, 2010

    You are funny Elena :-) I never thought I would hear you Ms. use the word “aint”

  • Kaye TM on Nov 13, 2010

    deep thoughts. great poem

  • LewSethics on Nov 13, 2010

    Once I smashed my thumb so bad I only wanted to sleep; anything else would involve pain.

  • lillyrose on Nov 13, 2010

    This poem touched on some of my still raw nerves. I have suffered depression on and off for the last 19 years or so. I just wanted to sleep all the time just to hide away from life. I also used to dream or think about laying in a river with water flowing over my head until I was no more. Very deep poem Jerry.

  • Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Nov 14, 2010

    Thanks Kaye and Lew.

    @ LillRose, keep the faith and take solace in the fact that others feel the same way you do.

  • lowellpendon on Nov 14, 2010

    Nice poem.

  • Adrn0919 on Nov 14, 2010

    Very nice way to describe escape.

  • Aiyanna on Nov 15, 2010

    Something profound and deep…. All I want when I fall asleep is to be surrounded by the people I love the most in life with a hope of seeing them in my world beyond mortal reality…

  • Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Nov 16, 2010

    Thanks for commenting Adrian and Anna.

  • naturechild02 on Nov 17, 2010

    I’m with Lilly, I sleep as much as possible to escape reality. I love to dream and create my own world. Your poem brought these feelings to mind, enjoyed it.

  • R G Lowry on Nov 18, 2010

    Absolutely brilliant, well written and imaginative :) keep up the good workx

  • Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Nov 18, 2010

    Thanks Naturechild02!

    Thank you especially Ms,. Lowry :-)

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