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Sound asleep, Happily dreaming, Then you hear, The alarm clock screeching, You drowsily awake, To put it on snooze, Then fall asleep, But when you snooze, you lose, You sleep a while, Then hear it...
It's that time, again, That I must try, To force some shut, Into my eye. I won't succeed, But try, I will, I'll lie, dust dead, And stony still.
#nightdwellers vs #daydwellers These lashes are laced with lead. The weight it pulls them down. As if I'm struggling against a tide And into sleep I will drown.
Teased by glimpses of sleep My subconsciousness creeps. All around me is dark Apart from Opuss' spark. Surrender my mind Rest and dreams to find.
Tonight in my bedroom as I switched off the light Much to my distress there began an awful fight.
My duvets to heavy,. I can't get out of bed,. I went to sleep at twelve,. I've got such a sleepy head,. Birds chirp in the garden,. Black, brown and red,. I try to block them out,. Of my sleepy head,.
Oh God, What is that. Urgh, an alarm, Why did I set one of those. Urgh, roll over, roll over, Great.
It's such an elusive thing. Fleeting. Sitting on the sofa watching the TV, you feel you eyelids start to droop and so take yourself to bed.
I open my eyes The world is barely dawning. How I hated Being early in the morning. Too tired to move, I fade back to sleep. Just for five minutes, But after twenty, still not a peep.