By- Dr. Nunglekpam Premi Devi, Independent Scholar
I can’t sleep! I can’t sleep!
Let me sleep this night! Let my eyes close!
Let my reasoning stop working! Eyes closed, still
I lay flat carefully; head above held high,
I route through regions, scenes, sites, spots and situations;
I can’t sleep; I’m drowsy, this night
Making me restless; still breathing active
‘M responding, ‘m reclining; eyes closed still
‘M depositing, ‘m stowing;
Oh! Heaven, what a judgmental?
What shrewdness? What a brainpower?
Making me restless, making me perceives all I have!
My individuality, my interpretation! My sensibility world;
Penetrating through reasoning!
Its half past 12 in the morning.
I can’t sleep! I can’t sleep!
Let me sleep this night! Let my eyes close!
Let my reasoning stop working! Eyes closed, still
I tried, tried and tried closing those; still ‘m breathing
I roll, roll and roll over; not comfortably
Sweeping and sweeping those pillows, incredibly!
Thumping and positioning extremely; overt
Constructing and encouraging my bodily posture;
Still! Can’t sleep, too restless my reasoning;
Oh! What a night, its half past 1 in the morning;
‘M still breathing active; ‘m dramatizing
‘M forcing hardly and ‘m measuring every amount;
Stressing and pulling; emphasizing over
Let me sleep! All I bray
Take me to sleep! All I breather
I can’t sleep! I can’t sleep!
Let me sleep this night! Let my eyes close!
Let my reasoning stop working! Eyes closed, still
I speak of suspension; I murmur of cessation;
Oh! Great night, how young and innocent!
Making my body soothes to lull confidently;
Still lying uneasy; waking me up now and then,
Thinking over and overt; noticeably
Too weary, too drowsy and too low;
Still! Can’t sleep, too restless my reasoning;
Oh! What a night, its half past 3 in the morning;
‘M worried, ‘m disturbed, still I walk through my reasoning;
Oh! What a fretful night, so miserable
So helpless! All shrews up
My understanding, my perseverance, making me weak;
I judge no more; all I bray,
Let me sleep! Take me to sleep!
