Under the potent night sky
Hang threads of memories which linger till dawn
Taunting my restless mind
Constant feverish thoughts break through my half-wakefulness
Each moment extends into my never-ending moonlit hours
Adding to and multiplying scenes from times past
Reminding me of thoughts I need to bury
Empty from my mind; face another day
*Uhtceare (plural) is an old English (Anglo-Saxon) word for pre-dawn (uht) cares and anxieties (ceare (plural) or caru (singular).
Trouble sleeping is clearly not a modern thing.
In our May meeting for the warm-up task, we took this ancient word to explore some of the things we might write about for the June writing task on sleep.
4 comments:
Time lying awake and seeing random scenes from ones life pass through ones mind is something I can relate to. However, as my daughter said to me recently, 'Mum, I really don't know whether what I'm remembering is a real memory or just something you took a photograph of!' Before we took so many photographs it was just scenes that popped up now and then from the past. 'Scenes of A Life' - a good title for a novel!
A powerful evocation of those 'threads of memories' (love that phrase) which begin that process in the night... powerful, because you don't name them, it would spoil it if you did.
I can totally relate to "taunting my restless mind"!
Thank you Liz, Irena, Suzi for your comments. I believe my memories when I lie awaken are real but when I am in a half sleep which I call my wake- sleep (I am asleep but aware of my surroundings), my thoughts become a mixture of memory and the visions of the creative part of my brain which I suppose is what we call a dream.
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