Twitch

Occasionally it’s a jerk

That startles me out of sleep

All It needs is a twitch

And suddenly I’m waist deep

It’s not so much as restlessness-

As it is an urge to breathe

I feel trapped inside my own body

All the way through the skin on my teeth

So I flail around to escape the pain

That steers it’s way into my bones

The stillness all around me-

has became one of many unknowns

So please, if you must leave me

To flinch into eternal doom

Make it hurt so that I may feel-

Something other than this tomb