Can't Sleep...

Can't sleep.

Won't sleep.

I have good reason why.

Last night I had this vivid dream

That made me wish to die...

My dream began quite

Pleasantly

With friends, among familiar places -

But morphed inexorably into film-noir,

Where beings wore masks

instead of faces.

Kafka meets 'Blade Runner'?

Dystopian mode, where nothing is quite what it seems.

I don't have insomnia -

Sleep comes quite easily.

But my REMs possess

Monotonous unpredictability.

In the beginning is the image

Then comes a tower of dazzle

Variations on vile themes -

One's mind starts to unravel.

Can't sleep.

Won't sleep.

I have good reason why.

Last night I had this vivid dream

That made me wish to die...