Let's talk about Sleeplessness

Let's talk about the nights when you laid awake even in the darkest hours,
with the brightness still stuck to your eyelids— lighting up the inside of your head like a Christmas tree.
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Let's talk about the nights when it was so silent,
such ominous, defeaning, audible silence,
that you could listen to each drop of water trinkling through the tap left open in the bathroom sink,
and yet you couldn't tell the superfluous mind from that open tap.
Tik, tip, tik, tip, tik, tip...
Like each drop was the crest and trough of the thoughts running amok in your mind.
A chain, almost!
A chain of thoughts so brittle that it repetitively got broken by the sound of water droplets,
albeit so strong that it stopped the mind from shutting down.
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Let's talk about the nights when even in the moments of sheer inactivity you could feel the palpitations in your chest,
and coarseness of your breath in your nostrils—
as if you rounded the universe at least 10 times while still lying motionless on the bed.
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Also, of course, let's talk about the funny excuses you gave for the dark circles under your eyes or pimples on your forehead the next day.😬 .
#Poem #terriblytinytales #sleepless #insomniac