Falling asleep

There's a blinking security light outside my bedroom window. It doesn't shine in directly, but it does create a flicker across my curtain and back wall. If one paid attention to it, and allowed their eyes to zone into the light, it can cause quite a distraction.

Do you ever get that sensatino when you're tired and trying to fall asleep, and you close your eyes, but you can still see the light? I mean, that you're eyes, although they feel closed, haven't really shut. There is a sliver of pupil left peeking out to which any errant light can filter and slip it's way through, past the eyelids. However heavy your eyes may feel, as if the whole dark, substantial weight of the night is pulling down of them, that thin little crack remains, allowing the faciltiy of sight to remain. Why does that happen?

On The Passing Of Ormeau Baths Gallery

“I’ll be here till I die, creeping alone genteel roads, on a stranger’s bike.”
- Samuel Beckett, letter to George Reavey, 8 Oct 1932

We bathed, yet may not bathe again
Until supple bestowers give
Down their purse to relieve our pain
And copper lives in which we live;
For lifetimes bided in the stew
Of poor silence, in the dark brink,
Are rarely gilded, and the few
That do are well to even think.
We live through work, our hands for guides
To scintillate a sight onto
The common canvas of our hides,
Our makeshift skin scored through and through;
So let us praise this noble lore
That helps to mark our hardy sands,
Counting the days while minds implore
To take their lives out from tied hands.
Cords may dry out, wither and die,
Our breath may creep down genteel roads
Bypassing cold, old strangers’ eyes
Out of reach from most liberal goads,
Yet I swear this: we will bathe again
In waters flowing fast and free;
In here, our life’s pursuit remains:
Our house is safe in memory.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4758256.stm
http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/news/2006/new02032006b.htm