Restlessness Poem by Phil Meglathery

What I await all day eludes me at night
My mind preoccupied as I pass through pages
All day I'm tired but when I turn out the light
I lie awake aware that I'm reliving these stages

Life comes at me day after day
And I daydream of sleeping itaway
I face down the future as I fight off my past
But tomorrow becomes yesterday far too fast

All the world's a stage and I never forget
As I see the same archetypes in every act
Instead of intermission dreams just change the set
Their contradictions conjured to drive home the fact

That I'm more bitter than all my medication
Doctor and self prescribed too much to name
And the most bitter part of my base education
Is realizing I'm the one to blame

Depressed by things I do that I do because I'm depressed
The cycle continues and I tire without rest