Sleepless Nights

This is a Sestina poem I wrote earlier in the year

Sleepless Nights

Some days life will spit in your face, and then throw you down

Then pick you up just to push you around

Sometimes it rains till you are up to your head

Then relieved to see the sun, but you burn till you are red

But its the sunless days and the moonless nights

That make you appreciate the light

Today my heart is heavy, but it should be light

I dont know what it is, but something has me down

It’s like standing under the sun, but seeing the night

I’m standing on solid ground, but my emotions are spinning around

I don’t have any wounds, but I’m bleeding red

I’m struggling to figure out what is going on inside my head

The struggle is to keep it in your head

To carry your heavy heart as if it were light

Write the story of your heart and hardly let it be read

Show to your closest friends what you wrote down

But don’t show it to too many, or it might get around

You don’t want to drive to many into depressive, sleepless nights

But it’s your loved ones who help you get through the sleepless nights

They help straighten out all the crazy in your head

So find the good ones and keep them around

Some time they can make your heavy heart feel light

It’s the people who love you who will pick you up when the world knocks you down

They will clean you up and wipe away the blood running red

But there is that special person who comes holding roses of red

She stays awake with you on those sleepless nights

She will stay with you through it all and never let you down

she will hold you tight, wipe the tears and lift your head

and when your heart isn't light, she will be your light

and when everyone else gives up, she will hang around

Some day I’m sure I’ll finally come around

But eventually the sun will again set red

Another storm will come and deprive me of the light

I’ll fight through the days, just to fight through the night

And then I’ll fight will all I've got just to get ahead

Because some days life will throw you down

But she will pick you up when you are down

She will hold you tight, wipe the tears, and lift your head

And she will hold you through the sleepless nights