Waking up

In the most general sense

is the opening of eyes

and getting out of sleep.

to leave the comfort of your bed,

brave the cold shower,

eat breakfast

and march on with the day.

And In the end, we rest.

in comfort.

We detach from the world

and let the moonlight

send us away to our dreams.

Somehow sleep sounds better than being awake

but why do we spend so much less time in it?

If sleeping meant no stress, no ache

then wouldn’t we all be doing it more?

I believe

we sleep and wake up

for their definitions

that are dynamically tied together.

That if sleep were to mean

“to be detached from the world”

then to wake up is to be part of it again.

we wake up

for the simplest reason that

we slept to do it.

We sleep for the waking up.

For the way our eyes open.

hoping they’ll see the world better

than they did yesterday.

We wake up

for the way

the best of our dreams leave us unknowingly

but we’ll gladly say farewell

because If to sleep were to dream

then waking up would mean a chance

to pull it closer to reality.

and bridge the gap that separates…

who we are now,

to who we want to be.

To who we need to be.

And TO WHO WE DESERVE TO BE.

We can wake up,

In an entirely different place.

In an entirely different time.

Can we be entirely different people in the blink of an eye?

So if all efforts fail,

Then sleep when it means

“to rest”

and waking up will mean hope,

that tells us

to go back

and try again.

"go back...

and try again…"

and try

again.