Insomnia

Tired

Sleepy

Why must this happen

I try to sleep

But

That thing

The monster

Creeps around in my head

Stopping my sleep

Not letting me drift off

Exhausted

It doesn't matter

It's doesn't care

It doesn't want me asleep

It wants its friends to torment my thoughts

Remind me of past embarrassments and mistakes

"You can't sleep" it coos

"My friends want to play"

So I lie there

With the thoughts presented to me

Unable to sleep

Unless

I take some medicine

Something natural

To quell the monster

And to let me drift away to lands undiscovered