<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Insomnia I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some nights it's bound to be your best way out,<br>When nightmare is the short end of the stick,<br>When sleep is a part of town where it's not safe<br>To walk at night, when waking is the only way<br>You have of distancing your wretched dead,<br>A growing crowd, and escaping out of their<br>Time into yours for another little while;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then pass ghostly, a planet in the house<br>Never observed, among the sleeping rooms<br>Where children dream themselves, and thence go down<br>Into the empty domain where daylight reigned;<br>Reward yourself with drink and a book to read,<br>A mystery, for its elusive gift<br>Of reassurance against the hour of death.<br>Order your heart about: Stop doing that!<br>And get the world to be secular again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, when you know who done it, turn out the light,<br>And quietly in darkness, in moonlight, or snowlight<br>Reflective, listen to the whistling earth<br>In its backspin trajectory around the sun<br>That makes the planets sometimes retrograde<br>And brings the cold forgiveness of the dawn<br>Whose light extinguishes all stars but one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410440" data-title="Insomnia I de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Some nights it's bound to be your best way out, When nightmare is the short end of the stick, When sleep is a part of town where it's not safe To walk at night, when waking is the only way You have of distancing your wretched dead, A growing crowd..."></div> </div> </div>

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