Eduardo Cruz

Oct 17, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Damn Sleepless Night!!

Moon rays enter through my
window pane,

Bloodshot eyes fight for some
rest through insomnia pain,

I raise and pull down the shade,
to deflect the bright moon rays,

Quick as a flash I'm back in the
sack, only to find I'm still an
insomniac

Slivers of light do still attack,
seems i won't get no rest back
in this sack,

I turn in my bed and cover my
eyes, now there are moon beams
striking at my rack,

I raise from my bed and sit at my
desk, attempting to see if writings
the trick that will put me to sleep,

I write and i write and all that i see
is gibberish, that I can't even read,

so here is this poem that came
from this night of economic
worries and not enough damn
sleep!!

— Eduardo Cruz, Oct 17, 2008

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: New York City, N.Y. Spanish Harlem, USA

Favorite Poets: P. Neruda, Jose de Diego, E. Dickenson, R. Frost, there are many more, but these had the greatest influence...

Critiques

infinite_dwarf

17 years 7 months ago

Eddie

Unfortunately, not much can be done about the financial thing. It's cyclical, and it'll eventually come back on its own. I feel for anyone that is having difficulties during this time, though. I guess the paranoid pessamist in me has always made it so that I'm prepared for such situations. Good luck. ~Jess K. ---------------------------------------------------- -"It is better to be thought of a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt..." - Mark Twain

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

honestly Jess,

this is just a poem that I wrote while waiting for my father-in-law, who was at the Doctors. Not a fact, just fantasy. My wife would tell you, "this idiot never worries". But thanks for the concern anyway. Eddie "if I go into wall street and scream bailout while I'm drunk, will I get one"

Linda Moses

17 years 7 months ago

Eddie

Cute poem. I'm still an insomniac. I like that.

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Linda,

I'm sorry to here that, it;s tough on your daylight body. My wife is like that, or was thanks to Ambient, she now get's her needed sleep. thank's for the cute! Eddie

Kailashana

17 years 7 months ago

your poem is putting me to

your poem is putting me to sleep. ;-) just kidding... i love the stories and the nature of the poem... doc's office, eh? ~A

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Anna,

It put me to sleep when I wrote it, but what the hell I thought I'll post it> LOL You know how it is in the Doc's office, old magazine and people tell each other how there in worst shape then you. It's better to just write! thanks for the love of the stories. Eddie

prayersbyPatty

17 years 7 months ago

Eddie,

Good use of time writing a poem if you cannot sleep. This was short and simple enjoyable. Patty

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Patty

thanks for the "enjoyable" Simple as it gets! thanks Eddie

leonard daranjo

17 years 7 months ago

Hi Eduardo

Insomnia is something I am quite familiar with. I can fully understand the frustrations you have so explicitly expressed in your poem. Leonard

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Hey Leo,

Thanks for stopping by to read, It's nice to here from you!! Eddie

Mohammad Yamin Iraqi

17 years 7 months ago

Damn Sleepless Night

A beautiful poem. Thank you for posting it. Some times events that you encounter take away your sleep. It is nice to use such an occasion for creative work. During my student days I often suffered from Insomnia. On such occasions I used to recite the verses of the great master of Urdu Poetry GHALIB. Deep philosophic thoughts in those verses normally swayed me away from the disturbing realities and mental state I was in. Next the book used to be dropped from my hand as the fairy of sleep sang lullaby for me. I remember a Rubai of the acclaimed poet Josh Malihabadi, which I have translated in English: In my thoughts the barriers of day and night I break I'm the sword that cuts me like a cake Bear witness to this unique event, O stars! The world is sleeping and I am awake Mohammad.

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Mo,

thank you for your comment, and the powerful translation I hope you don't mined that I copied the lines to use as a future quote! thanks, Eddie

orgami

17 years 7 months ago

magnetic lure

no sleep either so I write thinking of Poe of the others who found solace in the quiet of cities and time constraints the flickering gas flame he candle tallow the electric bulb and sometimes moonlight sullen like an express weeping her fare through the whisk of night howling at the lonesome crossings like a crestfallen dirge echoeing in the woodlands

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Orgami,

even your comments are so well thought out and beautify written, you wrote all I wanted to say and could not find the words! Eddie. again, I wish I could find words as readily as you. thanks for stopping by I"m always glad to here from you. "do like the once barren tree: flourish and like the planted seed: rise" Jose de Deigo my God you look like Rasputin in that picture. are sure you haven't been reincarnated

Mohammad Yamin Iraqi

17 years 7 months ago

Eduardo

Thanks for appreciating my comment and the quote of my Quatrain from my book Rubai'yat of Josh Malihabadi -A Drop and the Ocean. You may quote my Quatrain wherever you like. There is no restriction on quotes. Your poem appears to have triggered an exquisite poem titled Magnetic Lure by Orgami. Best wishes. Mohammad

Eduardo Cruz

17 years 7 months ago

Mo,

thanks again Eddie "do like the once barren tree: flourish and like the planted seed: rise" Jose de Deigo

weirdelf

17 years 7 months ago

Well, honest

especially in the last 2 stanzas. cheers, Jess