Let Me Sleep
Awake I lay
A busy mind
Nothing of importance
Just randomness running wild
Like leaves spinning in the wind.
Did I do this? I should do that?
And what about that thing!
My body's tired and wants to rest
My mind keeps stirring things.
I toss I turn
My tension grows each hour passes by
I tell my self I need to sleep
It's like an argument inside
My mind has things it needs to say
Insisting that I hear
It won't shut down
It won't turn off
It only rambles on.
Tomorrow's here soon
I won't be ready
To handle what it brings
There's got to be a way
Some how
To quiet my restless head.
Tonight my pillow has the key
To open up my mind
When other nights it soothes my head and
Cradles it in peace.
But tonight it is electrified
With will to search and find
All the unimportant things
And keep me out of sleep.
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