No, Not Yet!!!!

You go to bed exhausted. Perhaps the day has left you with real worries and concerns. Perhaps you are not feeling well, or perhaps some part of your body is causing you real pain. Whatever the reason, you lie down hoping for that sleep that restores mind and body. You lie there for what seems like hours. You hear the clock ticking away the seconds. You glance at the clock and only ten minutes have passed since the last time you looked. You try every conceivable technique to pass into that delicious twilight that precedes a sound sleep, but sleep won't come.

You might even have slept fitfully for a short time, but it seems like you have been awake all night. Finally the first rays of daylight spread across the ceiling. At this point you give up and drop off to sleep only to be awakened by the screaming of that terrible alarm clock. There is no more time for sleep. You must get up, and so you drag yourself into the bathroom and begin your morning ablutions. You hang your head and mutter, "Oh, Lord, I am so tired."

Well, my friends, this is not a new phenomenon. More than 200 years ago, William Wordsworth, a poet of the Romantic Era, wrote this little poem. If you are experiencing insomnia, I hope you can take some solace from his reflections about sleep, or the lack thereof.