These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Need of Sleep

The need of sleep I'd quickly say
is near to food most every day.
Each sleepless night doth work us ill
in ways, that naught else e'er can fill.

Some needed tasks withhold repose,
while charging health right through the nose.
"What are these villains?" you may ask.
Let's list right here the honored tasks.

In college papers of each term
do show what knowledge we affirm.
The final test with trivia alarming
doth steal our sleep with grades now harming.

New parents' ears to infant's call
can shape the face into a "pall."
The sleepless nights of young one's needs
may place the bed on list of greeds.

But when the youth do near the edge
of nest's known comforts as a fledge,
then older birds must get some sleep,
if life on Earth they'd long time keep.

by Jay O'Toole
on October 23rd, 2019