Sleep
Sleep
I bob restlessly, searching my brain
The deprival of sleep is causing me pain
Finding rhymes at this time when it’s more morning than night
Barely able to continue because fatigue has blurred my sight
Cannot find the subject of which to address this poem
My drowsiness allowed my mind to roam
To a picturesque land of random thoughts
Where the norm is anything your brain concocts
Where your role is determined by you
A hero, a villain, or something of the two
If I allow my eyes to rest, and let my mind retreat to this land
Would I be able to dream a dream that I demand
To close my eyes, to create a blank screen
To give my mind a canvas to paint a scene
Sometimes serene, sometimes anything but
Keeps me in a trance that noise can’t cut
The restlessness I had, my eyes refuse to keep
I’ll let my mind retreat to the land of sleep
Vincent Shoulars