#asleep
I lay awake, and hours pass
Soon there's the light of day
The sun goes up and down again,
wide awake I still lay
Late at night, I stare into a blank space
the void of darkness in front of me
in the next room over everyones tucked away
everyone asleep but me
I wonder why i cant drift off
like everyone else always does
whats so different about me
that my brain refuses to shut off
caffeine is my crutch
hiding the fatigue
the perfect breakfast
perfect for running on little to no sleep
Late at night i wonder why
why i have so many sleepless nights
My brain wide awake not letting me sleep
never being able to stop working
how it runs so endlessly
When people ask why i dont sleep
i simply tell them im batman busy saving the city
truth be told its more complicated than that
something harder to explain and even grasp
sometimes i do fall asleep
never do i know how or why
and then i forget how
that very next night
one must wonder how I forget how to sleep
and i must say i wonder the same thing
Here i am lying awake still pondering,
thinking...
all these sleepless nights
all because I somehow always forget how to sleep
Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM UTC
the new architecture is here
i miss the old floor plan
the days of your hots hands
the new setting has settled
i miss the in between
not locked, not free
when are you coming home
this house is a ghost without you
most of the days i bleed without you
stitch myself sick and then i let you
creep into my sleep like sandman
seep into my tea and breakfast
i cannot escape, i cannot resist
i cannot imagine no greater bliss
my heart cracks and creaks
i cannot stand the increasing heat
Mar 11
Mar 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTC
You listen,
but words pass through you.
You look,
but do not see what is plain.
You speak,
but say not what you mean.
You talk of feelings,
But refuse to feel them.
You say you love,
But what's left beyond words?
You ask for forgiveness,
Yet nothing has changed.
Jan 18
Jan 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM UTC
No one deserves
To fall asleep
At night
Wondering why
They weren't enough
Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM UTC
Didn't you know?
Didn't they tell you?
You should have known.
At least you ought to.
It's Psychology 101.
A classic class.
In how to charm.
Then disarm the victim.
Didn't you know?
Weren't you paying attention?
You were too caught.
In his gaze.
The way he said your name.
He played the prey.
Perfectly waiting.
Biding his time.
As his jaw gnawed,
At his cheek.
In the back of the class.
He watched you.
Following your footsteps.
Waiting to feast.
It was psychology 101.
But I guess you must,
have fallen asleep.
If there isn't any hope,
for you?
Then what hope is there for us?
Next time I hope you'll be paying attention.
Instead of falling asleep.
In my lesson.
Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM UTC
I Have Never Slept My Whole Life
I Sleep Walk
I Had A Neurolink From Aliens
As Soon As I Hit Rem Sleep
I Die and Wake Up
I Live A Double Life
I See Technology Unseen
I Wish I Could Sleep
Knowing I Never Will
I'm Not From Here
Reality Is Built Around My Apparate
God's Real
My Blood Is Prayed Too
I Have Been Sacrificed
Just So You Can Sleep
But I Can't
I Protect This Realm
Pray To God
Pray I Find an Exit
And
Wake
Apr 3, 2025
Apr 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC
I leave her alone
To give her the time
To feed her desires
'Till her own passion expires
And she falls asleep...
...in her preferred alone
So I can then come in
And kick the same tires
Left to fight the nightmares
Of my expressed fears
Of again being unwanted
And then try to sleep...
...in the worst type of alone
©2024
Oct 5, 2024
Oct 5, 2024 at 12:46 AM UTC
Peering down from a terrestial heap,
contemplating the debate at the seams,
exposing dim lights and the ones asleep.
I sat awake, in solitude, lost like a sheep.
Per(re?)ceiving all the secrets in ones dreams;
beneath the veil, and the ones that we keep.
What the bars in ones mind are made of are cheap:
confining and containing what one can gleam
from the empty gaps and the mental leaps.
I hope those objects and night-lights help you sleep;
Plato's shadowy projections move with moonbeams,
the brimful moon ebbing causes the shadows to creep.
The farside is bare, in twilight;
the mind becomes a maverick:
turning fireflies to winking sprights.
Can you regard all that I see
when you dream with eyes-closed?
And In your dream do people speak in poem or prose?
Are you transmitting dimensions of three
or are you given your dreams?
Do you wonder who contains those moments
and where they are received?
If heaven is dreaming nigh
I wonder what we would be
If God sent a message
what might be the presage;
And what might be the conveyance?
When you're dreaming Angels touch the ground,
revealing all that is bound.
~dancing with the beyond~
And (angels) evaporate in the dawn, or atleast seeming..
Let your eyes unlock~
Quick! The Gates are sealing
Run to recapture all that they've been stealing:
From all those who wish to lower your cieling.
---
A gypsy is whistling who's been up all night.
The dreams of many slip into hidden spaces:
Closets and under the bed; spirits dissipate.
As morning's light eminates
What do you see?
Mar 9, 2024
Mar 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM UTC
I've been lost in my head, I might outlast forever
I know it's cliche and can play the part of a trigger
But I don't feel safe, can't recall if I have ever
Awake or asleep, it's the same nightmare
Collectively we already know nothing in there fights fare
And the fabric between the realities are threadbare and beginning to tare
I can physically feel the line blur between what's fake and what I'll be held accountable for later
Poetry, to me, is just me attempting to map out every square inch under my thing hair
Behind eyes that can barely show they care
In my fake grin, and between my left and right ear
Taking caution not to ruffle a feather on the ****** of devil's on each shoulder
I'm sure to discover rooms I haven't been in since I don't know when, oh dear,
What's the year?
Whatever
Hey, what's in here?
To dark to tell but oh do I know this smell all too well
Unfairly familiar
That putrid air
Nothing can compare
I'd recognize it anywhere
What we have here is fear
Maybe it'd be irresponsible of me to share
Probably not a good idea to push much further
Clear and present danger
Nothing's properly put together
Can't make sense of the clutter
Extra pieces from every fixture
Litter the ground next to the broken glass from every family picture
Shattered dreams scattered everywhere
I know what it looks like but there's not an interesting story here
I can assure it was no thrilling adventure
But I can not ensure a safe future
No one should witness the part of me, the litny of every nasty memory, everything I was forced to locked away in there
It's my headspace and I'm even too afraid to enter
I thought the scar meant it healed but then how's this door ajar?
What's going on here?
©2024
Jan 30, 2024
Jan 30, 2024 at 6:18 PM UTC
Today is a very sleepy day
And I am going to sleep it away
So please do not come in my way
For today is a very sleepy day
May 23, 2022
May 23, 2022 at 8:34 AM UTC
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, to be rich is to notice the fair from the unfair:)
get well soon only
when hope not a lie lonely
hospital cell
unavailable played dead and fell
nothing in sequence
all hung on the adequacy
paper said
from future penholder skies unread
the green one too
to the land a stranger soon
what you earn is what you keep
don't count just drown in oblivious sleep
wallets light
rage blinds visible sights
the poor scream
the rich gleam
like an invisible ink flood
evaporation in the air a silenced blood
chocolate missed the ecstasy
everything shut down to reality
bones shrunk
never unnoticed to the think thunk
now things are pale
even the best bread is stale
how I remain
all calm in shameful disdain???
needs become old
whether blazing summer or winter ******* cold
and in my broken chair I be
the pathetic dreamy version of old me
------ravenfeels
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021 at 2:59 AM UTC
Before I fall asleep,
Let me dream a little.
If I dream about you,
Will you dance with me?
Before I get nightmares,
Let me rhyme a little.
If I sing a song to you,
Will you make love with me?
Before I fall from heaven,
Let me prepare a little.
If I fall in love with you,
Will you promptly hold me?
Jul 4, 2021
Jul 4, 2021 at 4:28 AM UTC
my eyes
are tired of being awake
tired of seeing
of knowing
if i close them
i don't know if they'll awaken again
Aug 21, 2021
Aug 21, 2021 at 8:54 PM UTC
Dreaming
Awoke to a different reality
Strange feelings
flowing on my body
Strange sensations
got me shivering
Do , I stand up
no I will just sit here
maybe , I will awake
might still be asleep
Hope , I am just dreaming
This would be a
a messed up reality
Dripping walls
Colors twisted
Sensations crawling &
tapping
So , I am just gonna sit here
till , I awake back to
reality
© Jennifer L DeLong 🦏
4/11/2021
Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 7:14 PM UTC
my eyes were closed
but I could see your face
so clearly
my arms were still
but I could feel your hug
so deeply
it wasn't even real
but I could feel my heart
racing
up to the very moment
I awoke
Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021 at 9:23 AM UTC
A continuation of places I have fallen asleep
- at the movies
- my dermatologist appointment
- the dentist
- getting my nails done
- the back room of my work
- the car on short rides
- the car on long rides
- 5 minutes after waking up in my bed
- the couch at 7pm
- the couch at 7am
- the grass in the garden
- the beach
- a portable hammock laying on my side
- waiting for the doctors appointment
- on the train
- on the bus
Jan 15, 2021
Jan 15, 2021 at 3:36 AM UTC
Empty and all else.
Falseness starting with an end.
Within relapse.
Within relapse.
Such certainty.
Definition.
And catastrophe.
Return.
When the slide in Athens becomes cyan.
And tired.
Garrett Johnson.
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 9:36 PM UTC
Wake up.
You've been asleep for too long.
You haven't seen the sunlight and experienced its warmth.
Wake up.
I want to see you living well,
doing the things that you love.
Wake up.
You still have a lot to do.
Achieve your dreams.
Give love.
Celebrate life.
Wake up!
I beg of you.
Wake up!
The world is waiting for you.
I am waiting for you.
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020 at 1:05 PM UTC
How do you not think about me as you fall asleep?
I think about you.
The energy exists, whether we like it or not.
I trust my intuition more than I trust myself.
Sometimes it's the only thing that makes sense.
It's indescribable..no words are worthy.
I see it in your eyes.
I feel it in your touch.
I fight the intuition because I feel I'm not good enough.
The image is undeniable.
I wish it would disappear
Soon I will become broken, and
I will take far too long to reappear.
Yet, I will remain adventurous..until you absolutely refute.
How do you not think about me when you fall asleep..
I think about you.
Aug 26, 2020
Aug 26, 2020 at 10:56 PM UTC
I’m not sure why I cry
when I should be asleep
It’s dark out and I try to be soothed by rain
But no peace comes to pacify the pain
I’m not sure if you’re the reason why
My heart hurts and my thoughts are too deep
But I overthink more than I should
Over and over
And I’m anxious over events that don’t take place
And I’m desperately longing to see your face
Even though I can’t take a breath or fade away
So many thoughts and yet nothing to say
And as I continue to cry, stuck miles away
With so many thoughts and yet nothing to say.
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020 at 4:07 AM UTC
rest
your eyes just for tonight,
i will kiss your forehead
and you will be alright
they say say blood is thicker, then every
colour fades to white.
our planetary existence has been
intertwined
and forever your dreams they
will be mine
we were raised to be our future
selves,
our past is over and i can
tell
that together
we'll all crumble down
my sweet little kitten
don't you
frown
these pointed daggers on our heads keep us
tacked into our beds
we only awaken
at the very end
all this time i spent thinking
enemies were friends
this rainbow will soon die
out,
there is no time for us all
right now
take my hand and never let me
go
we missed the start of our own
show
for now and forever together we'll
be
the heros of our own
history
wasting time trying to fix the
past
instead of making these dreams
last.
Jul 13, 2020
Jul 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM UTC