Creaseless warm bed <br />Soft pillow under head <br />Sleep tightening noose <br />Just then hell broke loose. <br />Breaking through that spell <br />A remote warning bell <br />Prised open the eyes <br />In streaming rhymes’ disguise! <br />Day’s stress though immense <br />Mind strained in patience <br />To find from maze a clue <br />For images one or two! <br />In that poetic trance <br />Sleep lost all its chance <br />In an agonizing dingdong <br />Clock said night was long. <br />The bed became one of thorn <br />Sleep died poems were born <br />Some trapped some were gone <br />Like night lost at dawn.<br /><br />Pradip Chattopadhyay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lost-at-dawn/
