Inspired by Northwest Frame of Mind 1 Day 1 World Project: 10pm and the well-known game ‘If I go to sleep now… that’s 8 hours sleep’…
“Time is an illusion”
It’s 10pm on a Monday
eyes closing; must be time to sleep
dreams of finding time – someday
there will be logic in our weeks.
Weighed and measured all my lifetime
into hours, days, months and years
conditioned by the hands that chime
transient moments – deepest fears.
It’s time to set the alarm clock
It’s time to turn down the warm bed
It’s time to pull on the wooly socks
It’s time to farewell today – she’s dead.
Time is humanity’s greatest curse
inured to the great grand design
trapped inside from birth to hearse
will we ever find the time?
It’s 10pm on a Monday
and it’s almost time for bed
tomorrow will be another day
tick tock goes the clock, she said.
Charlie Ann Alford 
Oh yes, the “If I can go to sleep now..” game. 🙂
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Going to bed at 10:00? Good for you, my body is not so willing to let go of the day… usually lasting a couple hours later than that…
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Thanks for your comment. Yes I’m pretty sure I was a cat in a previous life – I do love my sleep! 🙂
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Conditioned by the hands that chime indeed 🙂 I try not to be, but even in retirement it’s a race against it. Or do I mean, ‘especially in retirement’?
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Ha yes! Thanks for commenting 🙂
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Wonderful poetry! Oh, and that counting down feeling when you can;t get to sleep and thinking, if I get to sleep now I’ll have 5 hours, then 4 hours and then falling asleep when it is time to get up!
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