The birds are chirping
That repetitive sound that only they can make
It’s the first tell that it’s happened
Again
It goes faster at night
Time that is
It’s ticking seems to double in pace
All of a sudden here we are again
Awake
But are we really awake?
My eyes seeing
My legs moving
My hand writing
My ears hearing
But my brain…
Oh, my brain
It's asleep.
It quit it’s job hours ago
It said “if you aren’t going to put us to sleep, I will”
So it did.
Somehow my body takes over
It has gotten used to this
Recently
It keeps moving along as the brain is somewhere else
But where did it go?
My brain feels gone...yet
Still. Here. In. There.
But where is...there.
I wish I could ask it when it wakes
but then is when my body sleeps
Frozen in rest
Unable to ask
“When we all fall asleep, where do we go?”
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