The clock ticks onward
Time moves forward as I fall back

Wishes and wants and worries
Repression never works in the dead of night

The house sleeps around me
I want to join them in their slumber

Desires and dreams and demons
Keep me wide awake long after I should be lost to the world as well

Loneliness surrounds me
No matter how hard I try to avoid it

Hatred and hurt and heartache
Are constants companions as well although I attempt to banish them

It's not always so bad
But occasionally it becomes too much

Thoughts and threats and so many other things
I'm tired of it all but it's an inescapable routine

- starr