Sleepless

[addy]

Intriguing poem, with lots of tension. And even at the end the mystery and tension isn't quite released, which I quite liked. My favorite stanza is the first... simple images with a depth of meaning behind them that sets up the poem perfectly. If I had a quibble, it would be about the line "it's been said far too many times...(the blankets are cold, you make bad things go away, etc)". Who says those things? Not the general public, surely, so it must be either the narrator or the other object of the poem. So it's more like "I've said..." rather than "it's been said..." if I'm interpreting it correctly. Just imo, though.