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Created on: June 20, 2008
It comes on every night,
common sense takes flight.
It scares me so,
I don't want to go,
I fear to succumb,
my mind becomes numb.
Intellectually, I know it's best,
my body certainly needs the rest.
But, emotionally,
I don't want to go there anymore,
I was trapped in that bed before.
It was my prison for three, painful, long years,
it was my prison where I cried so many tears...
I'm overcome with psychic fears.
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