Slip Away

Inside is there screaming?

No, just a long and listless yawn

Close my eyes, let things fade

The world’s too bright

My soul just wants to sleep

Let the softening edge of dreaming take over

Life is too hard edged and sharp

Scraping me raw

Life I know is slipping away

But I lack the strength to even try

I should fight against the gray

But instead I let myself sink

Down I go

Back to sleep

Hoping someday I will wake

to a world I want to face