Tug of War

When Yama calls,
Everything human has to fail.
I stole some time from my time.
I have to get out now on borrowed bail.
When you do one thing
But your heart and soul lies elsewhere,
It's proper to be both proper or not,
And choose one over the other.
But what if it's a tug of war?
Heart and soul on opposite sides of the coin.
Times hold you back,
But time itself must go on.

Where are you.

In that time,
When it's not morning
And not even night,
When I am not asleep
And not quite awake,
I need to Know.
What if there are no signs,
No marks to show sign of life.
How does it matter.
To whom does it matter.
A question or a disaster.
There's no one to answer.
So I wander
Trying to find someone, something
That can solve the one question without a mark.
Why.

Sleep

The dark of the night
Mocks the emptiness of light.
I'd rather be in the dark
Than in the eyes of sight.
Pick me up, O Sleep,
Engulf me in dark.
Do I hear a sob?
Do I see a mark?
Turn off, turn off the light,
Lighting up a desolation so white.
It hurts my eyes to see
What could have been or could be.