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E 4d
I want to cry
but I can't
because then you'd see
and I don't think
I could bear to see
the pain in your eyes
knowing you're worried
about me

So I pull back
hide away
pull my hood up
say I'm fine
and walk quickly
careful, not too fast
to the bathroom
and quietly
the tears fall

I've learned how
to hide it by now
a bit of cold water
just a bit of time
and you'd never know
I can't let you see
that I can't
hold it together

That I'm falling apart
and it's not your fault
it's not anyone's
not really
I just can't
stop
worrying

But that's my job
isn't it?
to worry
protect
take care of
so why
why does it hurt?
why can't I
stop crying?

I think
maybe
it'll be fine
just laugh
and smile
a bit of concealer
and they won't know
I didn't sleep

Carefully timed
showers and
washing clothes
More ramen cups
in the trash
than anything else
trying to hold it together

Just drink another cup
down more coffee
and get back to it
another assignment
another hug
more comforting words
You can do it
keep it together
just a little longer

Maybe it wouldn't
fall apart
if I did
but I can't
risk that
risk
a funny word
so small
for so much
like me
holding more
then it can

Maybe one day
it'll be fine
the pills
the therapy
maybe it will
finally help
but for now
I just need
a minute
to breathe
a break
please
don't look
too long

Maybe I'm not
real
really
here
real
pain
hurting
is it
okay?
Am I?

Tears falling
heavy like rain
but they can't
I won't let them
see
I'll be fine
just
tired
a bit more
coffee
and I'll be
fine
by anonymous
I'm just.... tired. I want to help, I do. But I'm tired. I'm supposed to be the help.
insomnia and I.



Every night we meet, we talk nonsense and this and that,

All the questions and conversations I have in my head:

What if’s and if only’s and time that’s passed,

If only I chose myself,

didn’t please others and even my dad…

What if I dared to have all the things I never had,

Even if, what if, if I could, and if simply I said…

God, what to do with me, with all this and all that?



Hush…He gives me a cuddle, a comfort, an embrace,

A tight embrace that doesn’t let me out,

And then we talk, about stuff, for instance,my deepest fears,

My hidden, destructive doubts

and then some tears..



He knows everything and every cockroach in my head by name,

Knows all my impulses that I so badly want to tame.

I get messy, depressive but he is not the one to blame,

Because I despise him first but then I ask him to stay.



He stays and brings back all the memories I had, didn’t wanna have and the ones I haven’t yet made.  

Toxic guy from school, my grandma, the cat and the days dad came home late.

Talks to me of my dreams and pains, and the things I sometimes said,

People who hurt me, I hurt and decisions I regret..



I know we are better off but I don’t really know how,

Coz we are also good together, strangely, somehow.



Hours pass, we sit on the windowsill staring at the moon or ceiling,

Quiet. Thinking about future, dreams, and things worth believing

He knows I think that I will be soon leaving

So I am scared as a man buried alive

for all the hours I am stealing

from me,from life, from him…

and in the sleepless night, I am the insomnia, not him..

Maybe it’s not him but I’m the one who needs healing.
I feel odd
This strange mood has taken me

Something isn't right
Something isn't right

Discontent incomplete not whole
I wander down a bright corridor the lights hurt my eyes
The hum a cacophony of pain

Something isn't right
Something isn't right
Something isn't right
Something isn't right

I'm falling but stationary
A runaway train lost in the empty brightness
I'm mindlessly speeding through nothingness

Something is terribly wrong

I've never felt this way before
A mad descent
I'm suffering and I don't know why

I feel sick
From tension
From speed
From stress
From pain
From sickness
I don't know why

Something is wrong
Something is wrong
Something is wrong
Something is terribly wrong

My life is falling apart
as I curl up the walls close in
The bright light intensifies
I can't take it
I don't know
Please GOD save me

Please somebody save me

I can't think
I can't eat
I can't walk
I can't sleep

Something is wrong and it's hurting
The light intensifies
The hum gets louder
The walls begin to crush my chest
I gasp for breath but nothing reaches my lungs
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aleks Feb 13
each night a game of cat and mouse,
the sun rises as i creep into my bed like a louse.

the moon is my lover, i am its knight,
in the suns absence, i am loyal to the night.

the sun flirts with me on the edges of dawn,
but i am not of yesterday, i am no fawn.

and now, the crack of dawn puts me to sleep,
beloved moon, until sundown i leave my heart in your keep.
of sleepless nights and its tired knights.
What is there to say at 3:40 in the morning,
Other than,

“I wish I could fall asleep.”
****, I’m tired
Lostling Feb 7
The silence is my only friend
The one whom I yearn for to sit with me
In quiet nights alone in bed
And like hushed snow drifting down
Silence comes along, a ghost
Tucks in all my thoughts
To bed
Till they wake the next day
I wish my brain would shut up or at least slow down at night

(My thoughts and dreams, they’re racing still
As I sit on my window sill
And watch the sleeping world)
Anonymous Feb 5
Waking up is
always so hard,
just like falling asleep.
But I sleep with sleeping pills,
and I wonder,
why aren't there
waking pills?
Written in the Notes app on my phone.
Bhavesh Shah Jan 29
I waited for your wish
how foolish was I
Spent days buzzing off
for you to reply
Till my sun sets in and it was night
I better prepare for the worst night
clock strikes 12 and I was afraid
My heart breaks throughout the night

~Bhavesh Shah
My friends used
To always be around
Good times, bad times
It didn't really matter
Every day was a new
Exciting adventure

Fast forward 10 years
Our group is scattered
All over the world and
We've become merely
Memoirs to reminisce
On my insomnia nights
Realized I don't have any friend left. Did my depression took the best of me? Did I become that dull? Or that's just how being a grown up supposed to be? I really couldn't say...
I never felt more alone.
Àŧùl Jan 4
Hindi Original:

Ab Aankhon Mein Neend Kahaan?

Wo to bachpan tha jab so jaate the,
Ab to jaane kaisi fikr sataati hai.
Wo to bachpan tha jab kha paate the,
Ab to motaape ki fikr sataati hai.

Wo to bachpan tha jab khwaab sajaate the,
Ab to saari duniya berang lagti hai.
Wo to bachpan tha jab sab apne the,
Ab to duniya dushman nazar aati hai.

Wo to bachpan tha jab khush raha karte the,
Ab to barson puraana duhkh sataata hai...
Wo to bachpan tha jab bhavishya ki chinta na thi,
Ab to beete ateet ka kabhi na khatm hone waala khed hai...


Here's the translation:

Where Has The Sleep Gone From My Eyes?

That was childhood, when I could sleep,
Now, worries keep me awake.
That was childhood, when I could eat,
Now, fears of weight gain haunt me.

That was childhood, when I'd weave dreams,
Now, the whole world seems colorless.
That was childhood, when everyone was my own,
Now, the world seems like an enemy.

That was childhood, when I was always happy,
Now, decades of sorrow haunt me...
That was childhood, when I didn't worry about the future,
Now, the unending sorrow of the past haunts me...
My HP Poem #2037
©Atul Kaushal
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