NOW I LIE ME DOWN TO SLEEP
This is about political persecution and harrassment. One of their favorite tools is to abuse their target sexually. It is an easy hit, especially if their target is an attractive woman. They wrap you up in your own human history, and tell you that you are guilty for it, when being sexual should be a normal human function, they make it a crime. They dredge things up from the past, and play them over and over again, until they make you sick. They are master manipulators, and master controllers. And they never let you go to sleep…or at least anything that would be considered a good nights rest and dreams…only catnaps.
NOW I LIE ME DOWN TO SLEEP belongs to the following groups:
WMGnow I lie me down to sleep…
now I lie me down to sleep
but sleep does not come
I am telling the truth
you see if I lie down to sleep
I will be vulnerable to the bad people
who like to hurt me
so I have no choice but to stay awake
sleep is full of lies
and being awake keeps the lies away
even though the bad people try to lie to me
I see the truth because I am awake
if I go to sleep as they want
what will happen when I am resting
many times I want to sleep
but even when I think I can sleep
they wake me up, because they never go away
the bad people, who won’t leave me alone
with their lies and games
I am very tired
why don’t they understand
what everything looks like
from where I am lying
and let me have some rest
some peace
some tranquility
or do I have to die for this
it would certainly seem so
to simply have my own space and mind
why is this so hard to find
I don’t deserve their wake-up calls
I want to have some rest
why do they disrespect me so
I have done nothing to them
I do not disturb their rest
their peace
and their tranquility
I am not cruel to them, in their minds and souls
so why do they prey on me
I do not understand
all I know for sure, is that it is not safe to go to sleep
however, I am scared to think of the fact I have no choice
one way or another -
badnight
JANE Á PARIS
(this poem is about the present, not the past, although the bad people try to use the past)
now I lie me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
if I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Copyright ©2008 JANE Á PARIS
Hilton Briscoe
wow, this is a very deep poem.
I know how you feel, it can be such a strain having to always be aware of people’s lies and their motives. Out governments want to control us but we just want to live by the law and be happy but they don’t have our interests at heart, sometimes I feel it would be so much easier to “go to sleep” and just move with the river… but eventually if enough people wake up and fight the stream we could build a dam… well thats how I look at the poem, I am probably completely wrong. But I do get what you are saying about them using the past, I have a saying that I live by “the past is there to be learnt from not lived by”.
Keep up the great work, you are quickly becoming one of my favourite poets.