Narcolepsy: Found here

 

 

To simulate what I felt like

go fifty miles on a pedal bike

ignore sleep for a couple of days

then try setting about your normal ways.

 

I could reach this state in an hour dead

straight from the time I rose from bed

I'd fight and fight to keep my eyes open

knowing it was a waste of time then.

 

I've slept everywhere one possibly can

and other places unfit for man.

No need for a special spot

wet or dry, warm or not.

 

Forbidden by law to sleep underground,

so I dare not nod off where I'd be found.

I'd slip up some old road, that looked nice.

and go to dreamland with the mice.

 

The best years of my life went by

and even now I wonder why

no-one near, whom I turned to for aid

took side with me in this crusade.

 

Last year brought one strange twist of fate

that I'd like to take time to relate.

Given some drug to lift depression

I didn't sleep, six weeks in succession.

 

'They shouldn't have done that' my doctor said.

But what a change not needing bed.

I didn't sleep in any way

awake twenty four hours of every day.

 

There is still a whole life story to tell

a lot of times being quite well

but to keep in front has been a fight

a mixture of doing wrong and right.