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How I feel

 

 

I live like a vampire,stalking the night

Unable to rest, until morning light

Confined to the darkness, unable to break free

Every waking moment , spent with no one but me

The hours are long, and lonely am I

Sometimes I feel, as if I could die

How much longer do I have to wait

Until I am free, from this horrible fate

"When the kids are all grown" you say things will be okay

 I can join in the living and start enjoying  the day

I pray I can make it through this for heavens sake

For I am not sure how much more of the darkness my spirit can take

 

 

 

Being a parent is a very hard job, the sacrifices me make for our children we would not make for anyone else.  I have to work nights(which I hate) because of my kids and fiances scheduals.I stay up all night alone with noone to talk to on my nights off.   I would do anything for my kids but WOW how I would love to be able to live in the daytime again. Not much longer until my daughter will be old enough to put herself on the bus and I will again be able to work in the daytime and  feel like a living person. :)  It’s lonely in the dark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Frost Smith

Frost Smith

18 years 7 months ago

No good deed goes unpunished...

or rewarded; self scarfice is something as parents we took on when our childern are born; it is too bad that everybody doesn't relize that, the world would be a different place; My hats off to you...hang in there :)
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JulieMcCarty

18 years 7 months ago

Thanks

Frost, I appreciate your comment and your friendship. :)
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 7 months ago

May I recemend Melatonin

I was a Grave yard worker(very much by choice) It did make a differance,Autumn always seems to make the Grey Yard stark! Start making the custums (need Ideas let me know) Halloween is where your inner child is heading. In ink, David
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JulieMcCarty

18 years 7 months ago

I always seem

to get depressed in fall. I have seasonal depression. I fight it every year. I am just a person who needs a lot of sunlight to stay happy. I think that is why working nights is killing me. Nohting lasts forever so I am sure I will be fine. :)