Insomniac

A Poem by leenanicole

i can't sleep ..

i lay here, motionless, don't say a peep

mind running..

so to help my running mind i turn the lights out

though i doubt

this is gonna help much ..

it's now 1:35am, dark, yet i still can't sleep

so i try my best & try to count sheep

but those sheep turn to vivid memories

as i try not to weep

too deep in my cerubelum, my insides shriek

i just want sleep ..

now 2:20, i turn on my side, but sure enough i just seep

not into slumber but into a heap

of different emotions

vibrations

but i'm just trying to leap

onto the edge of slumber

... so that i may sleep

i just want sleep ..

i miss yet again, now 3:14, let's try the other side ..

but sleep can never come to a person tryna hide

behind dreams of bliss, happiness

friends, weed & double cup

the grimm reaper of my sanity

insomnia loves to keep me up

what is it that you want from me?!

why do you torment me so?!

is it because my rent was past due a week ago?

is is because i didn't text him back

or because i yelled at my mom?

because the palm of my hands sweat

when i feel the storm before the calm ?

it is now 4:57, my eyes start to seep

deliriously stuck between realities, i seek ..

refuge behind a pen, a book, my tweets

music ... but my concentration is shattered

my common sense is sweeped

under a rug of sluggish analogies, logics

my body runs weak ..

i just ... *yawns*

i cry tears of exhaustion, as sunrise creeps

i just yearn to leap into dreamland, the sheets i seek

but no REM as the rim of my bed i peak

guess that's another night i go with no sleep

© 2015 leenanicole

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cimmy wuv xxxooo

I relate to this so darn much.
I have been missing driving lessens, cancelling them because my instructor is taking me way to early in the morning, and I can't sleep the night before, so I can't drive on three hours of sleep.
No matter how hard you try you can't sleep, I feel your frustration, trust me.
Great poem.