A Penny for Your Thoughts

It's late yet my mind's racing
With words and phrases pacing
What's yet another sleepless night
In a room with no more light

The things I would say to you
If you were here with me too
These feelings lodged in my chest
That I wish I could exhale with my breath

Locked in this state of pain
With so many things in my brain
Could I write them all with a pen
Sit and stay awhile, then I'll begin

Please it'll take but a moment
And it'll bring an end to my torment
See try as I might sleep is out of reach
This writer's block is something I can't breach

I'd give you a penny, a dollar, five
If into your mind I could dive
A fresh story, a new idea to explore
That would bring me back to before

A boy of naivety with a heart of gold
Or at least that's what I have been told
After I traded it for a dream that couldn't last
A concept of you that stayed in the past