Monday, March 10, 2025

Sleepless

 

There was no way she could sleep like this.

One scrunched underneath her, the other draped awkwardly over the top of her.

She tried rearranging them with no improvement.

Flipping onto her other side, she tried again.

It was the same.

One was pushing into her ribs and side of her face, the other one couldn’t decide if it was going to flop in front of her, behind her or tenuously perch on top.

Even on her back, there was an unnatural uncertainty of where they should go.

Sighing in frustration, she wished arms could just screw off at night.  

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Sleepless

  There was no way she could sleep like this. One scrunched underneath her, the other draped awkwardly over the top of her. She tried re...