Reflecting the sky,
The soft-stirring water is wild with fire.
The last thing I want to see before I die.
The water is freezing,
but it looks so inviting.

Even my lonely bridge is sleeping fine.
Though an occasional soft stirring sigh,
You won’t be singing for me tonight.

I don't need it.
I can dream awake
I can melt into water
I can become nothing even without.
I am more behind cloudy eyes
Inside the storming headache.
I don't need to sleep.

Empty eyes black,
Begging for blacker,
for sleep.
It won't come.
The body does what it needs,
and it needs to be weak.

Fortress fortification
No concern for invaders,
but built up for prisoners.
Even I don't know
What damage behind falling bricks
Will show.

Empty, begging for something
Anything.
A broken five year streak?
But who knows how far water
Behind a ruined dam will go,
or what damage could be left below?

Stop screaming,
Watch,
You never sleep.
Clear I can hear you
Marking me.
Let me forget
Just once
When I am
and what that means.
My mind is failing,
Thoughts are disease.
Ticking loud time
I can’t get to sleep.

Your hands covered my eyes and I couldn't see,
Burning sick with the sorrow I couldn't leave,
All that was left were my own hands in effigy.

Suffering the soft buzz resonating in my head,
It's been two days. There's no resting, instead
I can't sleep.
It's exhausting enough to breathe thinking there's
Something disgusting,
Nose burning,
Toxic pocket of air.

Offering my eyes, dull pain itching their backs,
To the dark of closed curtains, cotton and skin colored black.
I can't sleep.
It's demanding enough attempting to think; There's
Nothing but disgusting
Brain sloshing
Beneath scalp and hair.