Sleep

Choke on my own blood
As I scream myself to sleep
Smothered by unanswered prayers
And parched desires
Like a murder of crows
My devils circle above me
Awaiting the steaming carrion
Of the remnants of my heart
Bled dry and waiting for her

My sorrows countless
The only ones that shall
Share my bed this night
Assemble and lay their traps for me
As my sequestered soul
Wanders the nightscape
Seeking her out
But finding only the hooks and snares
Set by my conspiracy of demons
Waiting just behind the lids of my eyes

I do not dream...
I fall
I do not sleep...
I die
This bed of nails a coffin
These rusty sheets a shroud
Tasting nightly deaths
Condemned and cast out
To the sun cracked wastelands
Outside of her embrace

Lay no stone
To mark this unholy site
Scatter my ashes
Over her homeland
That I may finally know her
As her sweet breath
Stirs the dying embers
Of my spirit.