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No Time to Think
Eight hours of sleep and I’d be doing fine,
Six hours a night has me falling behind
How can I sleep when there’s no pleasant dreams?
Why should I sleep if I’ll just wake from screams?
Too many thoughts waiting in my head
Stay quiet all day til I get back to bed
Nowhere to put them, no way to escape
They make my skin crawl and my fingers shake
Little lights in the darkness make sore eyes burn
Morsels of food make empty stomachs churn
Hugs from the unknowing make tears come forth
Meaningful kisses are worse, of course
Just one day a month makes it seem like I've won
But a few days later I'm back to square one
It takes just a day to give enough false hope
To make it feel like I won't have to cope
People on the outside who like to look in
Can't see where I am, can't see where I've been
And I'm too lost in my own world to dare to look back
For all I know all I'd see is black
Yes there are people who have it a lot worse
But right now this is me, right here in this verse
I just can't help but think of me first;
This is my life and this is my curse
