Night Awake

• Artist: Shadow Rose Defeated
• Description: This is a poem I wrote one night when I couldn't sleep. Just thoughts and memories from throughout the night that I wrote down to help me sleep but eventually it turned itself into a poem :0
• Date: 07/17/2009
• Tags: night awake sleepless alone

11:17pm
Said leave
Can't breathe
Sky falling
Life failing

Air blows
Wind chimes
Hear the sound
Feel the beat

Eyes closed
Mind open
Don't fall
Listen to me

Remember love
Remember life
Don't sleep
Stay awake

Eyes open
Smile on
Shoes tied
Ready to go

Here there
Up down
On a ride
To nowhereland

11:42pm
Future scary
Don't hate me
Hide my face
Don't see me

Looks here
Looks there
I hide away
Save me

Everywhere
People stare
Careless or curious?
Judging or impartial?


12:20am
Love me
Like I love you
Can I do it?
Too hard

Try again
And once more
Impossible
Give up

Work out
Scale broken?
I hope
Run away

Free free?
Celery
Nothing changed
Life stays

Think think
Hair done
Stand proud
Chin-up

Confidence
Smile
Stand
Believe
Just try it
Please

Self-less out of
Love for them?
Or hate for me?
Or both?

1:06 am
Voices loud
Obscene words
Cover ears
Make-do

Close windows
Shades shut
Shouting quieter
Pillow on head

They leave
Silent Night
No never mind
Whoops and shouts
Something won?


1:14am
Slightly delusional
Headless animals?
Nope found it
Kitty cat

Cat purrs
Fan whirrs
Car honks
Too loud

2:28am
Fireflies
In my head
Keeping me
Wide awake

Memories swim:
New sneakers
New school
Will have a gym

Watching watching
Girls flirting
Guys kicking
People everywhere

Bell rings
Too loud
Scurry away
Pencil in hand

My clothes baggy
Hand-me-downs
Theirs tight
New from malls

2:51
Thoughts swim
Irrational fears
Will they leave me?
Alone forever?

Turn on mute
Only defense
To stay away
From their claw

Things dark
Eyes close
Fall away
Down to sleep...

Comments

[possum fool]

different.
it doesn't flow, but i like your creativity.