The rain pours
and you cannot sleep.
Your mind races
and you cannot keep
pursuing your sanity--
that's going too deep--
and despair's fingers
begin to creep
in your head.
I don't know if this is how it is for you,
but this is how it was for me.
A cloudy day
is like a blank sheet.
It doesn't seem worth it
to talk or to eat
and you dread the day--
that holds no heat--
and it doesn't seem worth it
to get to your feet
or to breathe.
I don't know if this is when it is for you,
but this is when it was for me.
Yesterday seems
a year away
and you keeping mixing up
tomorrow and today
because if it hasn't happened--
"And it w
The night stretches before you,
endless
endless
endless.
Dawn will never come.
It is three in the morning and you hate yourself
and dawn will never, ever come.
You've already questioned
everything you hold important,
you've already listened
to the songs that comfort you.
You've exhausted every resource you keep for these occasions
and you are exhausted
because you have been up
since too early.
You have been up
since your body was too saturated with sleep
to let you lie in oblivion another minute.
And now it is three AM
and you are awake
and the night will not end.
You are the only one awake.
Everyone who cares
went to b