sleep before you
let me sleep early, earlier than you i switch off the light and turn away from you i'm not as tired as i said i was but let me sleep early all the same
let me detach from this world and the person i was today and the person i was yesterday and the shame i feel for saying all the wrong things and not saying enough of the right for loving some one i shouldn't have and missing them still after everything i ruined
his mother should hate me maybe all mothers should maybe yours will some day
but if i sleep, perhaps i can be somebody else indistinguishable in the darkness lost in the silence just until i wake up again and my guilt finds me once more
so i will sleep early tonight good night