Sleep

You close the paperback you have been reading and put it in the bedside as you struggle to keep your eyes open. You turn the light off, lay your head on the pillow, and drift off to sleep as soon as you close your eyes.

With your eyes closed, lips slightly parted and stray hairs on your forehead, you look cuter. You look calm as you sleep soundly, people, thoughts and incidents that keep bothering you during daytime cannot disturb you now.

As night deepens, you start dreaming. You mumble something inaudibly in your sleep as you dream. A single drop of tear falls past your cheek because it was a bad dream. Still in your sleep, you wipe the corner of your mouth because you were drooling. Then you fall asleep deeper.

You sleep as if your soul was completely parted from your body. Only your slow breathing, the rise and fall of your chest signals that you are alive. You sleep like that until the first sunshine of the morning peeps through your window and wakes you up.