Evading Sleep

Can you SEE the demons in my head

Driving me crazy...

Leading me to the very places I dread?

Can you Hear their whispered threats

Draining me dry...

Dragging me to life's roughest edge?

Can you SMELL their gory, bloody bodies

Doused in darkness...

Hovering over my flower garden like  killer bees?

Can you almost reach out and TOUCH

Their lethal shadows...

As they patrol, doing the night watch?

All my senses stay up drinking coffee

Sleep cannot come now...

sleep, do not come

They are waiting for me there,

I can see

So do not lead me to them,

Oh brief respite to mankind

Please,

Do not take me.