tired

Like stress

Tiredness consumes me

It chokes me in not a painful way

but a worn way

Like a vest

so close

to falling apart

but still has to survive

the following day

Like a foot

Stepping each step

With no control

of where it goes

It just does the job

no matter how hard

it  is to do it.

I am consumed by  it

It swallows me whole

How I'll survive 

I just don't know

But I know I will

Just not how

An urge to yawn

But too tired to do so

How that's possible

I just don't know

To crawl in bed

Sheets and covers

How I'd love

To lie there smothered

Smothered by sleep

A delicious slumber

But I know I can't

But I know I won't

But I know I will

Face the day

Blinding me now

And go on I will

I just dunno how.