I don't want to go to sleep

Mounds of children set off
And rocks they brought,
To build breakwaters.
Their agonies now gone,
The daybreaks of blood
In third worlds have stopped
And mothers' crying has
Ceased echoing in my ears,
I couldn't go to sleep without
Feeling I was not a man anymore
But a prescription of
Sleeping draughts.

And whenever I make up
My mind that poetry can go to hell,
The cops come
And I am left without bullets.

I remember going to the doctor,
I remember telling him
That oceans empty their waters
In my head while I sleep,
My poor conscience
Couldn't stand
The tearful reality,
And those hook like waves
Had torn my body,
As the bitches of death
Watched.

But tonight
Traumatized
From all this
Nocturnal fight
The bitches died
But although I can
Now sleep,
Doc, can you give me
The pill of insomnia?

What if those screams
Coming from Iraq
And Palestine and
Africa start again
And I am fast asleep?