Showing posts with label sleeplessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleeplessness. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

My Sheep is Jumping over............

 



Have you ever counted sheep?



                I have. Many times.

                                   Not that I own a ranch house.


                              Then don't you want to know where I counted them? You don't have to .You already  know it  because like me, you too  have done it so many times.



It is a very exciting feeling. To imagine an  unending line of fleecy lambs waiting patiently  to jump over a fence.

                 I start counting. "one,two,three,four"......... .

                          I visualize the eagerness of the lambs. One by one they are jumping over the fence  looking at me with their big, round eyes  and I keep on counting. "Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight......................

                      The tall trees in the  green meadow sway in the wind and bees hum overhead. Gentle breeze soothes me.I feel calm and quiet."Hundred and one, hundred and two, hundred and three"..............

                 My heavy  eye lids lean on the eyes for support. 


                              "Two hundred and ninety nine.......