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In Want of Insomnia

June 24, 2013
By CynicalQuixote GOLD, Waxhaw, North Carolina
CynicalQuixote GOLD, Waxhaw, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
"If we don't fix the world, I believe it becomes our fault."-Tsarina


One day I saw my eyes and woke up
From my past of lucid dreaming
And lived the way people do,
Day to day,
Life to death.

When I got old I didn’t want to sleep
Because I didn’t want to waste time,
Sleeping life away.
When I wake up
I think about sleeping
And the hours in the day
And the clock that’s ticking down.

I should stay awake
Because there has to be something left in the day
That I can’t miss
Because something might happen even if nothing’s happened so far.
I can’t go to sleep
Because the clock’s ticking down and
I don’t want to waste life sleeping.


The author's comments:
I sort of based this off my actual fear that I spent more time sleeping then living.

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