2 AM

Oh god, could you please put me to sleep?

Poet’s note:

It’s 2:00 am and I’m dangerously awake, my heart rate burns brighter than my eyes, and my thoughts keep racing, to nowhere faster. I’m hearing all the voices in my head again, and now I can’t stop thinking if it’s the last time I ever will. Oh god, could you please put me to sleep?

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Mellow is the new low,

buried on the pillow,

sending waves through the room.

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I relinquish the power

to take another tower

down, with these echoes of doom.

~

lightning in a vinyl

playing distant in a diner

as I reverie away.

~

wash me in the salt streams

clean away my bad dreams

as I lie awake,

in paralytic weight.

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Thanks for reading.

If you also overthink at 2 am a lot, you should probably write a little banger poem like I did ;) mwah

Oh and also, while you’re at it, I wrote these too btw, check em out if you’d like to…

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With love,

Lily.