Succumbing to Sleep

Today I wrote a duplex poem. You can read about the NaPoWriMo prompt here, which tells you more about how to write a duplex poem and gives some examples of duplex poetry.

Succumbing to Sleep

By Candace Shultz

In the blink of an eye
Two hours have gone by.

Those two hours just disappeared,

Lost to the land of dreams;

Though I do not remember dreaming,

Only the brief moments of waking up.

I tried to wake up again and again.

My eyes blinked open, but my body stayed still.

My body did not want to move,

So my eyes closed once more.

When my eyes shut out the light

I drifted back into the void with no dreams,

And in the void two hours flew by

In the blink of an eye.