When sleeping I lay awake in bed, <br />While dreamless, time calls to the dead. <br />The stars drip past a vampire moon, <br />Horizon sheds the sun too soon. <br />The more nights held, but never kept- <br />The more I realize how long I've slept. <br />Wandering through my waking hours, <br />A ghost that feeds, and time devours. <br />What more than chance we have to taste, <br />Our Hearts, our Heads! We lose, we waste! <br />Though given every chance to see- <br />Exactly how we will not be. <br />Sleep we will, through endless night, <br />Our lives left lifeless, our words all trite. <br />For fear or worse we beg to be convinced, <br />That life was lived! Fate smiled, not winced! <br />Tonight we sleep, may dreams bless all- <br />As the world turns, and fate befalls. <br />Fast awake, all night I will pray, <br />To stay awake yet another day.<br /><br />Wes Thompson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prophets-never-sleep-and-poets-never-dream/
