I fall asleep at 4:55AM

My eyes have barely sealed shut

I pray for a few hours of tranquility

But Dawn still rises, slowly, stubbornly...

I smile when they smile

I laugh when they do,

My face falls perfectly still

When I don't have to pretend to

I collect the broken peices of myself

Scattered around like shattered glass,

I hope superglue will work

To fix up the mosaic of my past...

I'm not use to the dark

I grew up with a night light,

So I spend a lot of hours crying

And I lie when people ask "are you alright?"

So many people want to know,

But nobody asks twice,

No one is a dog with a bone...

"Are you ok?"

No, but I _will_ be.

No, someone I love _broke_ me.

No, I'm obviously _crying_, dumbass.

No, I can't stop living in the past...

"Yeah, m'fine."

I don't know how long it'll be dark for

But as I've learned recently

_Falling asleep at 5:00AM, 3:45AM, 6:10AM..._

It won't last forever

Because Dawn still rises, slowly, stubbornly...

I'll be like the dawn,

I'll still rise,

Slowly,

And by god, stubbornly