Poem: Poets' Sleep

Poet's Sleep, 1989, by Chang Houg Ahn

before they pour down on these pages

I strive to make my thoughts comprehensible

yet sleep captures me; into a dream I flee every time

silence – a familiar friend – accompanies

the feet of a wanderer

muse has been throwing rocks at my window

broken glass lays scattered

showing skulls of people lost forever

like my voice immersed in these poems

words captured together forming skeletons of ideas

who will recite them and hear me?

nonetheless, my journey through the fields

of imagination is a passion I don't question

I will be returning to them

until death infuses my flesh

- and even after, my spirit wishes

to haunt these skeletons it created

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Written as a poetry prompt Mag #208.