Don't wake me...

Please don’t try to wake me

Just leave me here, leave me be

I always lose him when I open my eyes

Id rather be lost in this memory

My heart only beats through shallow breaths of sleep

Please don’t come searching within my soul

There is nothing to see, move along

Dare not to wonder what went wrong

Just turn off the light, walk away

Pretend you never saw me this way

Please don’t ask me to try to stand

You can show me nothing I have not seen

No place to take me I have not been

I’ve Already reached for a lovers hand

Dared to dance, already ran

My heart only beats through shallow breaths of sleep

Please don’t think you can change the way I feel

For once I had believed that true love was real

But now I rest on shattered ground

Run quickly from this wreckage found

Please don’t wonder why I have become a perfect waste

I could love you until I am full..

But I am no longer able to taste

So please, don’t try to wake me

As long as I am sleeping, I am being held in his arms

As long as I am able to dream, I don’t have to hurt

I am still dancing when I Close my eyes

He whispers my name to silence my cries

In dream I never have to know he left me sleeping

…in the dirt

I bid you farewell one last time

There is nothing here left to keep

I am serving this sentence

For someone else’s crime

My heart left barely beating

…through shallow breaths of sleep

　

-Catherine D.