Sleep, as each hour crawls

Fighting back to promises of life

Tangled in breaths not taken.

Struggle against the warm sheets of silence

Filled in with spaces unmeasured

Unmarked with remarkable left undone.

Sigh deeply with words unspoken

Drawn from lines and depths unplumbed

Scrapped together quickly in guilt. 

Awaken in frustrated surrender,

Unable to accept

Having not…