Sleep & Wake
I sleep to forget
The violence in me,
The want to destroy
Takes over me.
I wake and remember
All of the pain,
The agony that you’re
Never coming again.
I sleep to forget
The horrors I’ve seen,
The death, destruction,
And betrayal that’s been.
I wake and remember
The worst is to come,
The rejection and loss
In your final “um”.
I sleep to forget
What I wake and remember.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| Progression of Life | 4 | 09/09/2009 |
| Never Forget | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Muse | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Betrayed | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Dad | 1 | 09/09/2009 |
| The Day I Lost You | 1 | 09/09/2009 |
| Everytime | 1 | 09/09/2009 |
| Falling | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| n/a | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Life's Lessons | 1 | 09/09/2009 |
| Light | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| My Emo Poem | 0 | 09/10/2009 |
| Over It | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Perceptions | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Silence | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Sleep & Wake | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| I Lost You | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Darkness | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| n/a | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Victory | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Breath | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Lost to Yourself | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Anxiety | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Isolation | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Waiting | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
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