Tame The Beast

Written as a song -- but never given a tune!

Photo by Yash Raut on Unsplash

I lay my head down on the pillow

And close my eyes and then,
Instead of going right to sleep
My head begins to spin.

Chorus:

Round and round my mind goes

Dizzy as can be

Looking at the one thing

I don't want it to see.

I ask it to be quiet

To let me rest in peace

But no matter how hard I try to sleep

I cannot tame the beast.

I say to myself "don't think of that!"

I say it with command,

But when I want to think of home

It wanders in a foreign land.

I try hard to distract myself

By thinking other things,

But my mind pops back to what I do not want

Running circles in a ring.

The beast is coming at me now

It's menacing and mean

And if I don't get to sleep soon

I'm sure I'm going to scream!