Welcome to another crap poem!
I’ve been searching for ways to keep our family warm through the cost of living crisis. Like so many other bill payers, if my utilities rise any further I don’t know how we’ll manage.
Simple things like blankets and hoodies are at the ready, including my daughters super soft fleece (with bear ears!) that forces me to desire hugs from her even more. I didn’t think it was possible.
We’ve managed to mostly make do with warm items hidden in cupboards, but when I received a ‘special offer’ email for a weighted blanked, I had to finally fork out some cash. Boy am I glad I did.
I will write a proper post about the benefits I’ve experienced already, having owned the blanket for just a few weeks. But in the meantime this felt like a great subject matter for another crap poem.
Enjoy 💜
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Heavy Blanket, Heavy Sleep
For years and years
My time in bed
Was laying awake with you
Snoring loudly
Fast asleep
My fury grew taboo
I searched and searched
For something right
Solutions to the yawning
I was desperate
For slumber deep
To wake up in the morning
They came and came
More special offers
With ideas that were ‘cheap’
But nothing felt like
It would make
My evenings feel less bleak
I read and read
Until one day
The dream idea came
A weighted blanket
That seemed cheap
It lit up my tired brain
I dragged and dragged
A heavy load
Delivered by our postman
Inside was treasure
A silver cloak
It almost weighed a gross ton
I stroked and stroked
My new best friend
A silver fleecy wrapper
I hoped I’d found
A way to stop
Life as a daytime napper
I blink and blink
The clock strikes one
It’s time to try her out
The velvert fabric
Sliding up
I pray my dreams aren’t tragic
It barks and barks
A dog outside
But I am nearly snoozing
My eyes feel heavy
And I drift off
Like I’ve been out all night boozing
It beeps and beeps
Fuck off alarm
You’ve shat on my best slumber
I whack it hard
And see the time
I can’t believe the number
For years and years
My time in bed
Was ruined by such snoring
Now the alarm
Is all I dread
At least my life’s not boring
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Weighted blankets really do have a place in helping with poor sleep. For me at least, this has been a revelation. More about it will come soon.
Thanks for reading 💜
Creative Steph 