R.C. Rochte - A Night Awake

To loathe the waking moment,
The bitter lash of second-hand's sweep
And long for slumber's sweet respite.
Yet driven on through sleepless night
By haunted dream and cruelest thought
That shall so swiftly follow it.

(07 September 2011)

R.C. Rochte

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