Sleep

Prologue: The city in which I currently study, which is distant from the city I grew up in, is quite an oven during the summer months. For people like me, who have disturbed sleep due to rise in temperatures or wake up in the middle of the night to a sweat-soaked bed and decline in falling back asleep immediately, it can be quite a task to maintain a consistent sleeping pattern especially on academic working days. To make it worse, I sleep on the top bunk of my bunk bed which means the fan's breeze does not conveniently deviate to reach me.

This is one such night - probably the worst of all my nights - which had to top with me going to university the next day and my body feeling the ache of not sleeping. Back after class, the evening was no good since although I was lying down I could not fall alseep. And so this is one such piece written out of frustration from a bad night's sleep and having to deal with not being able to fall sleep when followed up with.

Inside the cocoon of a loveless night
She stays tossing and turning.
Her thoughts aren't even wandering tonight;
They're all focused on sleeping tight.

Inside that pitch black night
Was one girl who could not sleep.
For the heat yanked her arm into his
And so she swept the bed with perspiration.

Inside that poorly ventilated room
Of hopelessness rising each hour
Was dawn breaking,
The very time sleep had come to visit.

Inside that poorly rested brain
Was a sense of fatigue-
Of poor decision making and restlessness;
Irritation was on its brim.

Inside that mind was chaos
Of drowsiness and headaches.
Inside that mind was a sense of value
Of how a good night's sleep is worth it.

15.04.19

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