Sleep your day away
Sleep your life away.
Lay there, head buried, eyes tight shut
Past the dawn and past the dusk.
Sleep until you feel sick,
Until your pounding, hammering heart is fooled by dreams
And slows.
But every few hours you stir enough, and
SLAM SLAM again against your ribcage.
Sh, little one. This is only a dream.
Go back to sleep and wake in reality.
The light from your windows screaming
"Think you know darkness?
Go looking for it?
I'll show you darkness."
Oh darling, no matter how long you hide
It is not you who controls when your nightmare ends.
Is the dawn near?
Or has the sun only just set?