To Sleep

The coming and going is fleeting, somewhere in time's mist, I am. remembered or forgotten by all memories seem precious, to my soul they're looked upon with regret and forgiveness The current of life came and went, I stood on its banks, watched it pass It carried to many yesterdays filled with false hope, either by design or lack of understanding How sad reflections can be, measured by the shadow of dreams To many thoughts that had no purpose they cluttered the landscape of my mind Frivolous encounters with token destiny Mountains created and climbed without help Lost in the drifting jungle of civilization Alone in its caverns of trash, where tears fell to many times To yearn for something that can't be held caressed by beauty as it sadly leaves To wander street to street, without hope watching the sun setting, always setting as darkness became a friend not sought like pain felt from the first slap from a parent Given life again in days of youth when distance was a face drifting in the night and love was a floating leaf, never caught when tears fell dripping slowly towards earth caught only in empty palms of despair hoping to close my eyes to the world to sleep, to never breathe again, to sleep contest Own It