Regret

I stand asleep during the day

Watching the sunlight slipping away

Behind my closed eyes

Where soulmates choose to die

Tired dreams from old ghosts within

Come alive as I lay awake at night solid as tin

Or hollow stone or empty metal

They scream and cry in my mind something dreadful

I can see through my open eyes as they try to fly

Out of my mind and away from this place where all must cry

I reach out to them and hold them so tight

They have no where to go, no place in sight

They swirl around me in defense

They suffocate me and make me useless

They and I both know they'll never sleep

They'll stay in my mind and haunt me while I weep

There is no one to save me from my own memories

So while I stand here sleeping my life and future are what they seize