tears in my sleep

all night
the clock
ticks away,
it keeps
up with
the tears
i lose
during my
night,
some i
can taste
in my
false
dreams,
there
is no
joy in
my undoing,
this pain
keeps
growing,
and in
the
morning
i will
wipe my
eyes
if i
have not
drowned
in
my sleep.