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Seasons come and go
like seas' uneven breathing,
deeply heaving.

High tidal breeze,
swells rise,
seizing;
lunar lock and keys hide
sleeping,
dreaming.

Full feelings
meet beaches
easily steaming,
waves crash breakwall,
mist smoke screening.

Then new sliver
smiles, teasing,
moon's silver filigree
grins sharp, gleaming;
shallow reefs peeking,
watery weeds,
wrists reaching feebly.

Dreary ceiling
and lighthouse
beacon needed
to cleave through these evenings
of nightmares creeping.

Heart darkened
by legions teeming
with evil heathens
and devils, demons,
towering behemoth
war machines ceaseless,
stampedes succeeding;
peacekeeper unseated,
depressive diseases breeding,
thieving and depleting reason,
leeching,
treasonous lesions bleeding;
feeding on weaknesses
eaten.

Meanwhile
free man
cartesian mapping
Elysian regions,
feet and knees freezing-
insomnia's silence screaming,
no egress,
yet adamantine,
unheeding,
eager to only
keep own legs
still leading,
each step meets concrete
through bleakness,
seeking bright beam's
lamplit sweeping
serene for me but
heat seething
these cretins
like a bee sting.

Dawn relinquishes,
shadows fleeing
back to the steepest peaks,
creatures beaten,
receding
as sun climbs east
egregiously defeating,
signing tomorrow's treaty agreement
before besiege on eden repeating.
Ivan 7h
god of sleep
three days and I've not received your touch
tortured and plagued by monsters of the night
I pray to you

please god
take me by the hand into your domain
embrace me and hold me in your *****
take away these thoughts and perversions of life
as life is hell, this we already live it

god of sleep
carry me to the shores I adore
you are salvation from a life I abhor
and so this temporary death, I beg for

for you oh! god
I will take whatever drug
for you oh! god
I will turn into a street ****

as every time I seek your touch, oh! god
it may be my last
yet, not a care for whatever pay
for your presence to stay

oh! lord, let not the darkness fall
once more without your kiss
merciful and loving god, from a tempest blow
in the distance, your chariot closes in as it grows

closer yet
you deal a smile upon me
my head falls into your abyss
spinning again, until the last time
I awakened myself with a start
and crammed my medicine down
Opened old with fresh wounds
hunting myself with a pack of wolves

My soul choked within the morning
as it crawled to my daily tasks
Performed them standing on my head
when the wolves went to take a nap

(see me)
                See me running while I sleep

(tease me)
                   Tease me with that slab of beef

(please me)
                     Please me as I feel no pain

(free me)
                Free me with sweet insomnia again

Lulled me to sleep with soft panting
I opened mine eyes within your dream
where stones and metal ease the pain
Holy eyes closed in unholy sleep

The night stampeded like oxen
My soul dimly lit your face
My home now this haunted keep
since I never woke again

Just try to pull me from my bed
and flush my medicine away

Try and close my open wounds
and put a lead on the wolves

My sleep will only get deeper
The dosage will only get higher
The wounds more infected
The wolves bigger and faster than you

(see me)
               See me alive when I awake

(tease me)
                  Tease me then let me wholly partake

(please me)
                    Please me by letting me feel again

(free me)
                Free me with sweet peace again.
©2025 Daniel Irwin Tucker
An old poem.
E Feb 20
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.
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