"SLEEP DEPRIVED AND EXCESSIVE SLUMBERS"

There’s a thin, fine line

between being lazy

and experiencing lethargy

I feel I’ve been half-awake

Perhaps it’s too much coffee

I’m either here, there, or somewhere in-between

Other times,

I’m in my dreams

Random events that keep me asleep

as if I’m dead to the world already

You can’t wake me;

I’ve gone into deep

I’m not lazy

This lethargy is real

This is how it feels

Waking up to another day,

Like Sysyphus making the way

a repeating pattern

for the same old ‘crash and burn’

I need more sleep

Help me to get away from these creeps

but once I’m in bed

my thoughts are full of terror

a stream of consciousness

banging on my door.

I am restless without my usual, lucid dreams

feeling like I want to scream:

“ENOUGH OF THIS!”

R.