The Rays of the sun kissed my eyelids
Exposing my bloodshot eyes
I felt a sudden grasp
By what I slept to escape.
It hugged me tighter than my own mother ever did.
It greeted me with a pain so sharp.

Almost as if it gazed at me in my slumber
And patiently waited till I opened my eyes in the slightest
to inflict me with burden.
Legs weighed a 100 pounds—
I was better off laying helplessly on
my bed
Body felt like I had been ambushed by a legion of demons
in my nightmares,
Overwhelming sadness rested on my heart.
I could feel it happening all over again—
Just like a recovering drunk
as the alcohol slowly dwindled away from his system
And has to deal with the ugly reality
He tried to flee from—
My sleep was my alcohol.
My reality looked me in the eye at dawn
I stared at my ceiling, too weary to fully open my mouth.


And then I muttered, as a tear streamed down my right cheek—
Why did I wake ?
Why did I wake in a world so cruel ?
Why can't i just sleep forever ?