up all night
Tired, exhausted, needing to rest
Sleep, sleep...
The mind pacing, racing
constantly working
keeping the body awake
a battle at its final stake
Obstacles on my mind
terror in my head
raging fury
Overwhelming heat
pain everywhere
One wish: sleep
Running in circles
Jumping from one thought
to the other
Having to do so much
But it all can wait till
Tomorrow
Tossing, turning, debating
listening to myself think
my mind twisting into strange shapes
In the meantime trying
to make sense of it all
Darkness penetrating my brain
A roar of voices
stuttering advices at me
rages in my head
echoing from my skull
coming back
hitting me in a higher volume again
Scream back at them:
Let me sleep!
Still no silence
Lines of poems, songs and books
long forgotten or just discovered
popping up in my memory
No way to shut 'em up
Dazing in a state between
awakeness and sleep
but still no rest, no recreation
Too weak to move the body,
but the mind is unstopable
won't let go of the day
and the future
In the meantime trying
to make sense of it all
The mind, the body
The obstacles, the terror
The fury, the heat
The pain, the sleep
The thoughts, the circles
The tossing, the turning
The debating, the thinking
The shapes, the darkness
The voices, the advices
The echoes, the screams
The silence, the dazing
The mind, the body
Sense,
sense,
sense,
sleep,
sense...
