Hiding From Sleep Poem by Nick Kler

Some days I wake up
Only to find myself
Stuck between life and death

I try so hard to stay awake
I try so hard to run away
For days on and nights
I try to embrace the light

Yet sleep, it never fails
It always has its ways
As I sleep on for days
Only to wake up, yet again

Been hurt as an alien on this earth
Life that is handed to me upon birth
I find myself drowning in it
Drowning deeper within myself

Sleep always gets away
Suffering from an addiction to sway
I try hard to stay awake
Yet It always succeeds in her ways


Nick Kler