All I Want to Do

All of the postings from today are fairly old things that I' wrote several years ago.

All I want to do

All I want to do is sleep

So I can wake up again

A sucker punch from the sandman between the eyes

A cordial handshake from Morpheus

Either would do the trick

REM makes iniquity’s enormity fade

At least in my head

All I want to do is sleep

So I can wake up again

I want to rise like the eastern sun saying

“This is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it”

My blackboard, littered with debris, is pure and lacking fault when the sun rises because

“His mercies are new every morning.

All I want to do is sleep

So I can wake up again

Then my soul wakes and says

“Though my spirit be downtrodden and despaired, the day is not yet over.

What’s passed is written, but the future is still mine to shape.

The transgressions of a day can still be forgiven and forgotten before the setting of the sun.”

Still,

All I want to do is sleep

So I can wake up again

Insight sprints from my heart to my head and back.

God, may my confession become a prayer

And my pleas of forgiveness be heard

My insight made complete by promise

My soul cries for instantaneous repentance

“Tomorrow is promised to no man”

My paths made straight

And my attention lingers on one new thought

All I want to do is stay awake

Because sleep seems a waste of my God-given time…