Why Can't Sleep Come Easily....

So, in my never ending quest for sleep, I tend to like to read random poetry. To try and express my mood and help me to connect to something that sparks something in me that I feel that I relate to at that moment in my life. This is just some random poetic thoughts.


you left me with charred words in my throat
the things i wanted to hiss but
bit my tongue on and swallowed whole
to spare your fragile feelings
or taste fire...

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way...

I am the shadow you see beside you at night

The distorted, blackened version of yourself

Flickering in and out of alleyways

Not quite a person

Just the manifestation of all that you are trying to hide

Just the agony of being who you are

Everything you don't want the world to see

I am everything you don't want the world to see

Why are you afraid of me?

You run from me

But I am attached to you

We can never be separated

But through the noon sun's light, I can be you

And in total darkness you can be me

Which would you prefer?...

I truly thought
I had found myself
in a wondrous place
where you could truly see me,
and that all my words
were forever immortalized.
Held close.......
inside of your everything,
soft......as a breeze.

I laughed as you stared
into my eyes, asking my name.
With my heart in your hands
and the moonlight
at your beck and call.
Then......watching you walk away,
I smiled.......
even though I realized
you never knew me
at all...