literature

I can't sleep

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Tonight, I am tired,
I am sleepy but can't close my eyes.
My mind is roaming,
my thought are overflowing.


Everything is alright,
that's what I thought in the dead of night,
so why can't I close my eyes ?
I can't sleep to my utter surprise.


I stopped the noise and all the music,
in hope to stay calm and not lose myself in panic
as my mind wandered into darker and darker thoughts
and with anxiety as their only fallout.


But my mind refused to stay empty,
I thought about doubts, deaths and misery,
about those I love but that I couldn't see
as life kept them away from me.


How could I sleep and rest peacefully
when worries grabbed onto me ?
As my mind was still filled of thoughts about tomorrow that might not come,
the morning sun finaly rose with the sleep that I welcomed.

Akai Yari

This happened to me a week ago, as it sometimes happens, I have some anxiety crisis sometimes, but this time around I had nothing to occupy my mind with and couldn't sleep. I got to sleep finally at 7 am with the sun already high in the sky, I hope not to experience that again.
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Phobicangels23's avatar
This is every night for me...until 3-4 in the morning, then fall asleep, wake up at 5...sleep again. I love the poem though.