Words floating around in your head, waiting to get out...and causing insomnia!

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what inspires you to write? With me, it seems like sometimes i just have these thoughts and words floating aruond in my head, and the only way to get them out is by writing them down. For me this usually comes in the form of poetry. Many times when i am trying to deal with personal issues, or stresses in my life, i find the only way to calm myself and figure things out is to put that pen to paper and write about it. Some nights when i lay down to sleep, my brain just starts spinning with feelings and ideas, and i know the only way i am going to get to sleep is to get out my notebook and get these thoughts out. Does anyone else ever have this happen? Here's a poem that came about on one such night, when all i wanted to do was sleep but couldn't! Would you? Don't you hate it when you wake up at a quarter to three in the morning and all you want to do is go out or see people but hardly anyone is up and there's nothing to do you're so totally bored you just can't sleep you want to talk To get the words out that take up space in your head, your crowded brain you want to run farther and faster than you ever have before to get away to escape from the poison in your mind from the truth in your soul If you were offered a way to forget it all and just go back to sleep, would you take it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the poem itself poses another question.....WOULD you take it? Would you give up all that creative energy to just go back to sleep? or would you rather enjoy the "high" that comes from writing something (i can't be the only one who feels accomplished when i complete a writing) and forgo the rest that your body so dearly desires?