Know what it’s like to be trapped awake?
For days on end,
hallucinate.
An immense strain
upon the body
No falling asleep
instead passing out
So damned exhausted
one can’t count
Thoughts so jumbled
as one mumbles
Can’t make sense of one’s own mind
Speaking to oneself,
in search of a sign
Paranoid by now,
covering all tracks
Forgetting by this
time that sleep one so lacks
