{"sf1_id":1233474,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Sonnet #1: Insomnia","author":"Halata","words":112,"posted_at":"2017-08-28T00:45:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1233474-sonnet-1-insomnia","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1233474","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1233474\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Shall I lay sleepless each and ev'ry night,\n\nAnd burn with moonlit lust to dream again?\n\nShall I then write by fading candlelight\n\nWith mind and soul assailed by constant din?\n\n  \n\nThe moon shines down through lonely window panes\n\nAs if to mock my troubled state of mind.\n\nMy pen spits blood upon the page in vain\n\nAs words grow harder still for me to find.\n\n  \n\nInsomnia still holds me by the throat,\n\nThe clock, it reads a quarter after five,\n\nYet with the curse such sleeplessness denotes,\n\nIt's at this time I know that I'm alive.\n\n  \n\nSo has this demon then become a friend,\n\nOh never let this waking wonder end.\n  \n  \n\n"}