Give me a Rosary and a dreamless sleep...

Give me a Rosary and a dreamless sleep

and I will be happy for the rest of my life,

counting the beads for world peace

I will sacrifice the time I used to spend thinking of you

and the way I wanted you to hold me,

and instead spend it on wishing the night terrors away,

keep the sleep paralysis at bay.

I can hardly think in the darkness for all I see are shadows

threatening to rip me apart

and possess me,

make me kill my mother and eat my sister,

caused by the weight of my sin and indecision,

not in one camp or another,

driving my brain to steer in angles unexplained in the light.

Give me a Rosary and a dreamless sleep,

and as my eyes close on the Hail Mary,

everything will be alright with the world,

for there are no shadows in Silence,

only in the absence of light.