Fears

It is hard to fear the dark when you can’t fall asleep in the light,

It is hard to have a light on at night because you cry yourself to sleep in the fight

The fight to stay awake so that you don’t go numb again like the night before and

Every night before that, but also the fight to go to sleep

So you don’t have to suffer another waking moment in this heap.

But, this heap is not who you are, it reads girl

You scream boy trying not to hurl.

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