Its five a.m. and still I cannot sleep,
My world’s been shattered and peace will not come,
Turning a light on shadows buried deep,
Awoke the past and now I am undone.
Scars once thought healed have opened up anew,
Pain thought forgotten rises to the fore,
Lies I believed wanting them to be true,
Are now the cause for me of endless war.
What would I give if I could change the past?
Avoid mistakes fatal not just to me,
But to those I love best from first to last,
No price too high for redemption would be.
I’ve done grievous wrong trying to do right,
And now there’s no solution to my plight.
You can hear a song I created today with lyrics derived from this sonnet with music and voice through Suno.com free of charge at https://suno.com/s/nI4dncbe52FXxAkV
(Lyrics (C) Victor D. Lopez 2020, 2026 - All rights reserved).
Apr 3
Apr 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM UTC
Its five a.m. and still I cannot sleep,
My world’s been shattered and peace will not come,
Turning a light on shadows buried deep,
Awoke the past and now I am undone.
Scars once thought healed have opened up anew,
Pain thought forgotten rises to the fore,
Lies I believed wanting them to be true,
Are now the cause for me of endless war.
What would I give if I could change the past?
Avoid mistakes fatal not just to me,
But to those I love best from first to last,
No price too high for redemption would be.
I’ve done grievous wrong trying to do right,
And now there’s no solution to my plight.
You can hear a song I created today with lyrics derived from this sonnet with music and voice through Suno.com free of charge at https://suno.com/s/nI4dncbe52FXxAkV
(Lyrics (C) Victor D. Lopez 2020, 2026 - All rights reserved).
I wrote this sonnet as it states at 5:00 a.m. unable to go to sleep after a day of working on my novel in 2020. The feelings it brought back were almost overwhelming. Today I turned the sonnet into lyrics for a song I composed and produced using Suno.com for the music and voice based on my commands, instructions and tweaks. I really like the result. And I hope you do as well.
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