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Insomnia
Sleep doesn't visit me at night
and has become a distant friend
that writes tiny tidbits
in spastic winks.
This desperate pattern
breaks a leaf
and crowds a page
in my book of life.
My nocturnal nemesis
now takes precedence of time
and I dabble with synthetic
cerebral coaxing with hope
that the vintage grape
will be a catalyst for this free pen.
The words flow finally,
indigo rivers from somewhere deep
within my quasi-inebriated brain,
gathering like soldiers
ready to fight my quintessential battles.
Sleep won't visit, so at three
in the morning I open the door
to invite a memory in,
perhaps two, then drift away
on clouded thoughts.
I awaken to half a world
of blinding sunshine
and foggy concentration
that lasts and lasts until once again
that frightful twilight brings my nemesis,
insomnia…
Kirsten Campbell is a non-fiction writer and poet who lives in the New York area with her two daughters. Her poetry
has been published in P.A. &M., and Beauty Talk Magazine of Atlanta, Ga., and several magazines in New York such
as The Interracial Voice. Her mother is German, her father, Jamaican and Scottish. Her parents abandoned her when
she was very young, left her with her Jamaican grandmother without any paperwork proving where she was born. Due
to immigration problems that stemmed from her birth abroad, she's lived a very unusual life, so much so that her
life's story is now sought by several agents in tri-state area.
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