Regarding Exhaustion

It seems people only grow tired
to prevent them from doing great things
I have often had ideas to write
but I never wrote them down due to fatigue

Is the Sandman the warden
of this creative dilution prison?
Chaining us to sleep and dream
to find inspiration but then forgotten it

Why is exhaustion a creative barrier
that helps and then burns?
What can we do to stop this event,
in this game, from taking it’s turn?

There are only questions
and the answers die in our nightmares
I wish we could somehow reach inside
and pull them out of there

We are only human after all,
but as writers, I thought we were more
The ability to take a few words
and create art is an award

Then why are we handicapped?
Why does sleep prevent us
from our full potential?
Why can we stop it?