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Fear is keeping me awake.

Fear is keeping me awake

It slowly creeps up beside me

                makes my heart race

                            my pulse quicken

So that I'm at a loss of what to do

                                      where to go from here

And I can't comprehend what might happen

if one day you cease to be in my life

                                   to care how I feel

                                               at all

This fear is forbidding me from sleeping

                   suffocating me

                   preventing me from thinking clearly

                                                      breathing properly

                   causing my thoughts to scatter

                                                            become irrational

                                                                          incoherent

                   strangling my heart

I am too scared to sleep because I might dream

about you, or rather a lack thereof

                                   a world in which you don't care

                                                                you don't exist

                                   a time in which I am not on your mind

                                                                              in your heart

This fear is too much for me to bear tonight

                                                     sort through in my mind

I can't quite explain why I am feeling this way

                                           I seem to need you so much

                                                                    your hand in mine

                                                                             heart for life

                                           I need you to hear this

                                                                  understand me

One thing that I know for certain is that

I need for you to let me know how you truly feel about me

                                                   where we're going to go from here

                                                   what is going on with you

                                                                                with me

                                                                                between us

                                                   if you want me to leave you alone

                                                                                  let you go

                                                                                  give up hope

This fear is keeping me awake.

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Written by
melanie-beth
25 / F
Published
Oct 23, 2011
Lines·Words
42·231
Notes

So I wrote this one night when I simply could not think straight...the structure kind of developed on its own and I think I like how it turned out. Let me know what you think.

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