Give me rest. The kind of slumber that toddlers protest during naptime but succumb to with a stream of drool on their rested faces; the kind of slumber that enables my grandmother to nap in a rocking chair with a book teetering on the edge of her lap, the sort of sleep that wakes me up an hour before the morning trumpets blast;
give me that,
because I'm tired of the sheets clutching on to me like handcuffs engraved on criminal wrists.