I Need To Sleep

This searing pain within my chest This urgent need to lay and rest And rid me of my sheer distress When did things become a mess These jarring thoughts going through my brain They do not stop going round again I live in fear of all I meet I want to leave and to retreat My anguish is not plain to see It engulfs all parts of me It stabs at me like sharp shards of glass Nowhere to go, nowhere to pass I feel no hope or motivation No love or hate or devotion I feel I’ve lost the will to live I have nothing left to give No one hears my rising cry No one cares if I live or die No one knows what it is I feel No one knows what to me is real I need to leave to find relief I have no hope and no belief So as I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep