First Edit: Dreamless

[vagabond]

Dreamless


Dreamless

Sleep infects my brain until he starts to cry.
Then dark stumbling, light's blinding help,              while i like the way you phrase sleep-drunkenness so poetically i think it doesn´t add to the poem a lot.
his soothing a nightly occurrence.                            i´d write "soothing him" and "recurrence" instead of occurence.
His little hands reach
with the greatest necessity I've ever known.       maybe tune this down a bit  
Palms press again my shoulders,           did you mean "against"?  wouldn´t reaching lead to baby´s hands curling around a finger or two? or is it specifically "press against shoulders", that somehow gives me a very different image which i am  not sure is deliberate.
his wordless commands a small reassurance            maybe "his wordless pleas assure that all´s not lost" to give that sentence a verb. also i´d leave "small" out, since the scene wants more hope in my view.
that all is not lost.                                                               
I write my worries in notebooks,
carelessly left on cluttered desks,                       i think you could leave that line out it seems distracting (to me)
words like "Autism" and "delayed" poor rhyme choices.          perfect way to describe attempts to deal with worries that lack answers.
Too many of my pens gone dry and tossed aside...                 pens gone dry is very touching.. seems something else went dry.        

This poem is a sequel of sorts to "Sleepless". I'm wondering if it works as its own piece, or if I should merge the two poems? Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Richard!
i think this works more like a prequel, but i do think it stands well alone.
not sure if the title is ideal..