Why I Stay Awake Poem by Jasjiv Singh

Separating me from all my dreaming
I don't know where God is hiding
Don't know when I became a stranger to myself
How do I survive even even my soul has detached itself
Why do my tracks ask me where I reside
Why does the knock ask me if the way is inside

Paths leading to no destination
Look for me, that's where I am stationed
Heart is somewhere, the beat lives far away
I am breathing but am I alive, I can't say

Slipping through my fingers of my hand
Lying everywhere rests my fate scattered like sand
How do I write another sordid tale
The pen's run out of its sadness ale
The way that I'm on was my own choice
Then why do I complain about me in my own voice?
What big a crime did I make?
O! lord you penalized me; this life I've to partake

O! child the lines that have been drawn on your fore
Are what the world's age going to be in lore
My tears kept me killing till I drowned
But the Lord's order here cannot be downed

Paths leading to no destination
Look for me, that's where I am stationed
Heart is somewhere, the beat lives far away
I am breathing but am I alive, I can't say

Why I stay awake
While he weaves dreams, so fake!
How can my lord sleep with open eyes, so fake!
Why I stay awake?


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