Insomnia

I lay awake tossing and turning

as minutes turned into hours

and my soul begged

to be cocooned by the sweet envelope of sleep.

But I was mercilessly denied.

Despair and anguish instead took its place.

Oppressive in its silence and persecuting in its isolation,

the dark of night borrows from its cousin

the valley of the shadow of death.

As the anxieties within me multiplied,

I blinked for what seemed like a moment

And daylight had broken

Prematurely.

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