REST

Time for this week's link up with Karen Beth for Tuesday @ Ten where we have a full week to write on the word prompt.

This week's word is:

Some how...

I think our dear friend Karen Beth - hostess of this awesome weekly gathering -

has been snooping in my journal!!

Ha ha ha!!

Little did she know when the word REST was chosen for this week...

That I had already written a brief poem in my journal!!

So, here goes:

I do not sleep well at night!

I do not fall asleep easily either!

I do whine and complain, and moan and groan about this -

A LOT!!

Sorry folks!  Just my nature, I guess...and I am sure if you read even a few of my posts,

You have read somewhere how badly I sleep...I do not always get the rest needed.

Like, the other night; in fact, the past two or three nights!

And, when I did get up the next morning after one of these nights, I jotted these words down in my journal:

"Sleep"

"Oh, Sleep -

Where art thou?

When will you come?

Why won't you come to me?

Let my restlessness

Be overcome

By the

Sleep

That

will not come...

Yet,

When you do come -

Stays

not nearly long enough

for my weary soul

to Rest in thee.

Oh, Sleep -

I need thee so...

I long for thee

to close over me,

To let my weary soul

share in the Peace

of a night of

Sleep;

a night full of

the Rest

I need

to find.

Oh, Sleep -

You once again

have slipped away

from my grasp;

have left me

weary once more;

longing,

yet again,

for

Sleep -

just beyond my grasp,

beyond...

my weariness

longs

for that rest.

Oh...

When

will rest come;

oh...

Where

will rest be found?

{bjl - April 2015}

YES, I DO!!

And, I can find that rest:

IN HIM!!

And, I'll leave you with one more thought:

Thanks for indulging me to whine just one more time...

I hope!!!