Sleep is not my friend.
I lie awake and alone.
I bite my lip to keep from screaming.
Pain stabs me like a hundred knives.

Aching pain coarses through my veins.
Leaving nowhere untouched.
Replacing the substance of life
With a desire to just give up and die.

Repressed screams escape my lips,
But does anyone hear them?
Pain shocks my every nerve
Like millions of lightning bolts.

I taste the bitter salt of tears on my lips.
Exhaustion crashed over my body like a tidal wave.
Cursed to relive this nightmare forever,
Or until eternal slumber sets me free...
No, sleep is not my friend.