I want to go to sleep,
But my daydreams are keeping me awake,
And are turning to ‘daynightmares’
Because of these daynightmares, I have become afraid to think,
Because each thought dawns an inception
That crystalizes to become the catalyst to torture me awake
And fulfill a perpetual process.
They are daynightmares, not because I fear them,
But because they keep me as a prisoner of my thoughts,
The voices in my head screaming at me to document my feelings for you.
The way I loathe you.
The way I love you.
The way I pity you.
The way I will forever be there to protect you,
Even if you won’t be there to allow me to catch you if you fall.
The way that you’d done effectively NOTHING productive for me,
But be my muse, and use your perfectly constructed destruction
To inspire the art that I don’t merely DO,
but breathe.
and with that,
Your exclusion has become a part of me.
Your elusion has become the only thing I could grasp.
I wish I could sleep, so I could dream about you,
But the fact that I’m dreaming about you right now
Keeps me awake.
This poem © Kevin Blain Harrison. Published Aug 13, 2011