Not a Sleeping Beauty

Tick-tock

Here we go again

Blank walls and counting popcorn

The ceiling is slacking

Tick-tock

Wakefulness drags on

Leaving me with no chance

The moon rises

Bright and proud

Tick-tock

The sleepless pattern continues

Entrance to Dream Land denied

Light streams through

bathing the floor

Tick-tock

I’ve lost