Voices

I pound my pillow in the quiet Lying still, Counting sheep Desperate for the nothingness of sleep Always the voices Dim light trickles through the shutters The streetlight outside my window My only friend here tonight Amongst the voices Plagued by exhaustion Yet unable to find peace For no slumber comes The screaming voices Silence my only desire For my weary body aches No sleep again tonight Be still the voices Beside me sleeps my love The purr of his soft breath Yet I hate him now He hears no voices Plagued until I rise This night of lifetimes I embrace and listen To the voices I hear the crickets Singing softly in the distance Finally, gratefully, I drift to sleep Exit the voices