A New Day at Midnight

Three hours of braving the seas
Three hours of seeing the unseen
180 minutes of staring at the clock
180 minutes of wishing time would stop

Tick-tock, tick-tock
Another hour gone and past
Tick-tock, tick-tock
A thousand children breathing fast

Three hours of tossing and turning
Longing for sleep, yearning for air
Three hours of lying in bed
Wishing for peace, searching the stair

180 minutes of getting instead
Screams in the night
Blood spilled on the floor
Lives lost to a closing door

Tick-tock, tick-tock
I won’t be getting sleep tonight
Tick-tock, tick-tock
A new day at midnight

Three hours, a million deaths
A thousand children taking their last breath
I just stay and lie in bed
Time lost, tears streaming in my head