Insomnia

I hear rhyming-chimes

As grandfather sounds  

He ancient, tolls the hour --- BONG!

Unknowable tick-tocks pass

Tock-ticking-tick-tocking

Could drive one to madness

Cheeky tickity-tick-tick – infernal mocking

Grandfather,
Thou,

Precise machine

Plugging-chugging away

All the night through

I tossing, do ponder … what (the tock-ticking) else can I do?

Where are you tonight, my Lord?

Am I so far from you?

Bing – Bong

Streeeeeeeumph! – At last, the clock strikes two

Have I not sought your face

Oh, creator most divine?

Be near me; most dear to me

Galloping heart keeps tempos time

Alone, with fitful frightful thoughts

So strange, they only haunt at night

My nerves, a tangled ball of knots 

I will time's hand to move for me

Bing – Bong - Bong

Streeeeeeumph! – At last, the clock strikes three

Watch over me Lord

(My soul does pray)

In your loving care do keep
Chase this restlessness away
For I've counted a flock of sheep

On the pendulum I swing

From drowse to aware

 ... Drat it all!

Why can’t I sleep?