Insomniac's Requiem

Can’t sleep,

My thoughts race skin deep

Forbidding rest,

I’m wearing my dreamless vest

Made of flesh and stress

Heavy clothes I can’t undress

Trapped under stained sheets

My mind wanders the sleepless streets

Searching for a cure,

My body can no longer endure

Skin and bone is all I am

Once a lion, now a lamb,

Falling farther every night

To the sandman’s delight.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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