Sometimes, some things

Sometimes I am too tired to sleep

Too worried about things I've said

or maybe its the things I didn't say

Thoughts bottled up inside my head
Flitter like fireflies in a mason jar

Too anxious about things I haven't done

errands that must be done tomorrow

items to check off my list, maybe some tasks

that aren't intended for me to complete

Too excited about the possibilities

of what more I could become

if I set my doubts free, of the place 

I could go if I let myself explore

Too overwhelmed by 

all of life's uncertainties

of dreams that could become reality

if only I wasn't too tired to sleep.


This is my second installment of today's prompt, written around 1:00 this morning.  Probably should have just put it in my reader's notebook, but that's still on the bookshelf in the cellophane, and my iPad was right next to the bed.