Sleep deprived…

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Exhausted!

Sleepless with eyes burning and an ache within…

It was nothing major… Just a few stolen moments of slumber while he held me… Maybe not even 5 minutes…

The next night, all I had to lull me to sleep was perhaps a lingering scent of him on the pillow. It brought me comfort; a false sense of belonging; of being ‘not alone’.

Today, even that has been washed away in the swirl of soap and water and the thrumming of the washing machine and I can’t sleep…

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