When You Can’t Sleep

Lullaby
by François Nicholas Riss
This work is in
the public domain.

What do you do when you just can’t sleep?
Do you try to settle down and not make a peep?
Do you toss and turn to try to settle in?
Or do you try to breathe softly out and in?
Do you open your eyes and lie in wonder?
Or do you shut them tight against the thunder?
Do you listen to the sound of the wind a howlin’?
Or do you get up and satisfy that stomach growlin’?

What do you do when you just can’t sleep?
Do you close your ey...