Your perpetual state of tired
Irks me, because I want you
To be better and happy.
Your inability to fall asleep
Weighs me down, just like
Your tiredness does to you.
Your jerking body, sleeping
Restlessly, makes me wish you
Were awake and away.
From your nightmares
Which have become
As much my enemies
As yours, by now,
But which I do not
Have to experience.
A never ending loop of either
Tired-and-nightmared, or
Day-haunted and hallucinating.
You just want it to stop and
I do too, but I don't say a thing
'Cause you're having enough trouble
Sleeping, as it is.
Jan 28, 2014
Jan 28, 2014 at 12:46 PM UTC
Your perpetual state of tired
Irks me, because I want you
To be better and happy.
Your inability to fall asleep
Weighs me down, just like
Your tiredness does to you.
Your jerking body, sleeping
Restlessly, makes me wish you
Were awake and away.
From your nightmares
Which have become
As much my enemies
As yours, by now,
But which I do not
Have to experience.
A never ending loop of either
Tired-and-nightmared, or
Day-haunted and hallucinating.
You just want it to stop and
I do too, but I don't say a thing
'Cause you're having enough trouble
Sleeping, as it is.
For R.E., but also A.R.