Insomnia

       My body and mind is ready to be soothed,but something within me won't let me rest. I forced myself to turn everything off and to try to go to sleep at 11:30. I tossed and turned and tried every kind of meditation technique I know off. My thoughts floated on leaves down the river and everytime another one arrived I sent it on its way. After about twenty minutes of this I tried the more severe and often more effective way of placing a big red stop sign in front of my mind's eye. BAM! Eventually I fell asleep,but my little furry angel dog, Seven, must have had a halting dream around 2 A.M.  He woke himself with a loud bark. Well,when you are a single woman living alone a bark in the middle of the night is terrifying. I sat upright in bed only to discover that Seven looked more startled than I felt. I rubbed his little noggin and laid back down thinking I still have four hours until I wake up. That was an hour ago. I have laid in my bed trying to go to back to sleep for one hour.
  So here are the mental images that shall lull me back to sleep for 2 hours and 52 minutes.

• deer in the meadow
• the ocean
• a field of lavender
• sleeping in a fluffy cloud
• puppies
• there is a harpist by my bed(um,creepy) a harpist playing music in the fluffy cloud,that's better
• swimming in a crisp cool brook-ahh,relaxing
• puppies