Just go to Sleep

 

Just go to sleep. 

Do not follow those dark thoughts. 

Tomorrow is a new day and 

things will look different then. 

Don't be seduced by easy answers, 

making haste to a finality 

that will solve nothing. 

Just go to sleep 

and know that you are loved 

by someone, somewhere. 

There is pain enough to go around. 

Do not add to it, even if it means 

carrying the burden 

for at least one more day.

***

It was May of 2017 and I was at a conference in San Diego.  I was sitting on my hotel balcony when I learned that Chris Cornell had ended his life.  It seemed so sad and senseless.  He was an incredible human being and beloved by so many.  It was late in the evening and I needed to go to bed but couldn’t find sleep so I wrote this poem.