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Bed - Time Blues News
by Georgia M McDowell → (All Poetry by Georgia M McDowell)
Friday, September 27, 2019 Rated "G" by the Author.

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To the reader. I find it kind of difficult at times to get "quality sleep" at bedtime. Many of us resort to various sleep remedies, for the best rest-time at bed time. But alas...MUSIC in my ears, CALMING WORDS - often do the trick! Remembering the important things in & of Life; are "precious - memories" that will calm the nervous energy storms from the stressful body. Matthew 4:4 reads: "But he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" . Thanks to all and enjoy the read.

Melodies ... In My Head, After I go to bed . Leading me ... seeing the Waves come into my Dread(s) . Now ... the Melodies in My Head , Repeat back - to - Me all that I've said? Oh Lord ! Take these , Make - Me Hear , Something - else instead . Wish ... that they would all just ... lay down and play dead ? Phone - bills , Electric - bills , Water - bills , Car - notes , Family - boat money all spent . And do not DARE ! ... "Leave - out" the Rent ? This thinking is CERTAINLY "not" Heaven Sent . Melodies ... in My Head , Must stay AWAKE now instead . Troubles - Me to Look & Troubles - Me to see . Too much on my Mind, could it be ?... "vexing-me" , "perplexing-me" , Testing-me most - times ? All Gathering About , ... Especially Around BEDTIME . Bed - Time Blues News ... Much more than I can use . "Take these" , Make - me" Hear, Something - else ... Instead ! Bed - Time Blues News I ... should have caught the clues . Too much in my Head, Before I go to bed ! I Hear Melodies ... in my Head, Before I go to Bed , I Hear Melodies ... in my Head, Just after... I... go to Bed . / pwo10-25-2010 / ©Copyright 2010 All rights reserved

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on September 29, 2019

To those of us with a conscience and clear obligation such as wanting to pay our debts, the bedtime blues can visit when we feel we have no options. I like the way your poem points out the cause and a possible cure.

Except for the occasional transgression that I couldn't resolve, I slept well up until 25 years ago when physical deterioration started to make going to sleep difficult with swollen and painful feet and legs from inactivity all day and the inability to turn myself in my sleep. Fortunately, by morning, raising my feet and legs usually allows the fluid collected during the day to return to the bloodstream and all of the tingling, spasms and other effects keeping me awake, go away.

Ron