If I fall asleep now I can get seven hours.
Except I need to get up, because I think I let the stove on.
If I fall asleep now I can get six hours.
Except I’m thinking of all the things I’ve got to do tomorrow.
If I fall asleep now I can get five hours.
Except I’m thinking about all the things I didn’t do today.
If I fall asleep now I can get four hours.
The ticking of the alarm clock is driving me insane.
If I fall asleep now I can get three hours.
I have that big project due next week. I’m not even halfway done.
If I fall asleep now I can get two hours.
How am I ever going to work on two hours of sleep?
If I fall asleep now I can get one hour.
One hour. Surely I can’t work on that.
I’m supposed to get up now.
I call in sick.
And finally…
I sleep.
mariasjostrand 
I can certainly empathize with this poem. Thank you! Even when I do sleep, I wake every hour, so the repetition of the countdown of hours is so fam
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Well, I’ve never had to count down eight hours, but I have been down to: “guess I’ll have three hours of sleep”
Thanks for the review! 😁
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Perfect! Sounds very familiar!
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Ah, the trevails of the most inside out forms of entropy.
Nice poem!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Very nicely done!
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Thank you 😊
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Reblogged this on Mie Kjerulff and commented:
An awesome poem by an awesome writer! I personally really relate to this poem, and I love the countdown of hours of sleep going on in it. I’m guessing I’m not the only one counting how many hours I have to sleep before going to bed 🙂
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Woah Woah Woah. You write my nights. Sigh.
The rationale, the logic behind the countdown to the utter irony of the killer close. Too real!
Wonderful poetry. 🙂
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Thank you so much! Thankfully I don’t have many of these nights any more, but I did have problems sleeping for several years 🙂
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On the money! Been there done that, all too often, always end up going to work anyway… Brilliant piece, wish I had thought of it!
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Thank you! And thank you for commenting 🙂
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