By Maysen Paul
I want to fall into my bed like a bird,
Flightless and in quicksand.
A trip to the sun and back, and one cruise
Around the earth, yet in darkness
No cow nor sheep nor star can lull me to silence.
I want my eyes to plummet shut like a door,
Two boulder stones off a cliff.
I drift through the black Mariana Trench, yet
Natural Melatonin is still too deep
to find in this impalpable sea of forget
I want to negotiate with the gold sandman,
Sprinkle moments in my ear.
That car ride home, playing “Come Away With Me”
Sinking into the window side
With molasses blinks to watch the moon trail near.
Maysen Paul is a Penn State University Park student who is majoring in Elementary and Middle School Education. They are from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, which is about 45 minutes away from Philly. They love to do yoga and plan to become a certified yoga instructor in the future, and they also love music and get a lot of work done throughout the day to some background jams. Another hobby of theirs is writing, although writing can be a bit stressful with some assignments, but writing for fun is a great way for them to express themself. In this poem, they wrote about sleepless nights since sometimes, life gets so stressful being in school, having work, or living in quarantine.