The hours pass by as I attempt to fall out of my wake <br />It’s very difficult for my nocturnal phase to escape <br />I don’t drink coffee, do drugs, why can’t I sleep <br />In the mirror, the bags under my eyes make me weep <br />The joints in my body grow sore, head begins to ache <br />My slumber is essential, for my own sake <br /> <br />I lay there in bed, counting sheep won’t work <br />I must sleep, since under my bed are where the monsters lurk <br />My state of mind begins to frighten me, am I going crazy? <br />Noises start arriving, things go bump in the night, I’m wary <br /> <br />Family and friends are concerned about me <br />Their help is not needed to make me free <br />It’s been so long without dozing off; it’s not good for my health <br />All these sleepless nights, why am I doing this to myself? <br />I pray eventually that I will produce some Z’s <br />Aren’t the Gods in the skies hearing my pleas! <br /> <br />Losing my mind because of my condition <br />It’s been three days now without redemption <br />Head starts spinning, I hope that it’s not what it seems <br />Unfornutely it is, I collapse, why isn’t it a dream<br /><br />Sedale Salera<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sleepless-nights-31/
