Sleep

I close my eyes and I try to sleep But I cannot, so I begin to weep As I am so tired and so very weak Rest and solitude is all that I seek, I wish to close my eyes and find that peace That moment of time when worries will cease But when I close my eyes I am still awake Sleep for me, it did forsake, I need so dearly to enter into a dream But I cannot, so at the walls I do scream I am so weary and so very tired My sleep and rest are both desired, Tossing and turning still upon my bed As fatigue and worries still enters my head Upon my bed I wish I was peacefully lying Instead of tossing and turning and sadly crying, Again and again I try my best to find that sleep I take pills and I even try to count sheep But every time I dose off my quest it fails Another bit of madness and more pills then entails, My thoughts now no longer speak to my brain I have no energy I feel the slow drain I remember the words that my friends have said That I will find that sleep, when I am dead.