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I haven't slept
Not once
The exhaustion comes
I want to sleep
I close my eyes
Sleep doesn't come
My mind is running wild
I try to just breathe
Don't think I tell myself
Just breathe
Sleep doesn't come
I lie there for hours
Lie there with my eyes closed
Hoping, praying I can sleep tonight
But sleep just doesn't come
Time is a murderer
Time is a killer
Taking and taking and never giving
Time takes us
Takes our youth
Inhaling it every second
Time goes all too fast
When we need it slow
Time goes all to slow
When we need it fast
Time makes the decisions
Life is measured in time
Time of birth
Time of death
Time is always there
Always dwelling, looming
Until one day
Time envelopes us whole
How long can you wait
How long can you hide
Time is precious
Some waste it
Some **** it
Everyone fears it
We never have enough
Never have enough time
I wish someone would notice
Notice the good in me, instead of the bad
I wish someone would notice
Notice who I truly am
I wish someone would notice
The way I smile or the way I laugh
I wish someone would notice
Notice how lonely I am
I wish someone would notice
Notice how broken I am
I wish someone would notice
Notice the demons I face
I wish someone would notice
Notice my actions
I wish anyone would notice
Notice me.
Happiness
For me it's a different definition
Happiness is a rose
Red, full of life
Happiness is warm blankets
Watching the snow fall slowly
Happiness is tea and books
Stories of elves and magic lands
Happiness is a summer evening
Riding in the car with my dad
Happiness is a hug from my nephew
His bright blue eyes sparkling
Happiness is a song
One that I can sing over and over
Happiness is a ladybug
Crawling on my finger
Happiness is little things
Happiness is what I make it
Happiness is the world
I am a book
I hold many stories
I am a new book
Filled with old stories
Stories of adventure
Stories of pain and sorrow
I'm clean and shiny on the outside
I'm ***** and dusty on the inside
I hold secrets and rumors
I hold rhymes and riddles
I hold quotes and sayings
I am a book only very few read
The book sitting on big oak bookshelf
I am a new book
Surrounded by old books
Waiting for the next person
The next person who will try and open me
A strange man, you don't know him
He smiles at you, though you don't smile back
He looks at you, you look away
He walks, you walk away
You can't tell the truth
Who'd believe you anyway
He's a bad man, a dangerous man
You can't sleep at night
You're not safe during the day
You're not safe from the stares
You're not safe from the looks
You can't let it show
how you really feel inside
You just want to go
Go anywhere but home
Home isn't safe, nor is the road
You can't get away, you'll never get away
You want to feel happy, you want to feel safe
Nobody understands, even if they say they do
You hate who you're turning into
You hate who you are
All because of the bad man
The same bad man who keeps you up at night
The same bad man who made you feel this way
The same bad mad who you never even knew
Everything that happened was put on you
You,re just a kid, you deserve to have fun
But he came into your life
He enveloped you in his darkness
You're suffocating
Secrets floating
Floating through the wind
Sitting on the tips of our tongues
Ringing in our ears
Secrets so eager to be told
Don't tell anyone
Don't say anything
One person
Another person
Another secret
Rumors made from secrets
Secrets are never secrets
Real secrets are never told
But forever held in the mind
Stuck until it kills us
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