Sleep

My body doesn't know what it means to sleep

I've grown to see it as a privilege

A privilege I don’t have

I must stay awake at night

There aren't enough hours in the day to be able to do everything we want

If we were to somehow subtract the state of being called sleep, from our programing

Imagine all the things that could get accomplished

All the places we could get to

Sleep puts a limit to what we can and can't do

If the idea of getting tired didn't exist

I would run miles for days

Get to any place in the world by foot

I’d explore the world around me as I get there

If I didn't have to sleep

I would climb the biggest mountain

I would rise my arm into the sky

Touch the clouds

Have my fingertips turn blue

I am becoming one with the sky

If never drained of my energy

I’d run a marathon everyday

I would work every second of the day to reach my end goal

If the idea of sleep was wiped out

We humans could reach endless possibilities

But

Because I do get tired and need sleep

Clouds are only a reach away in dreams,

How will I run 26.3 miles everyday

Without having my body hate me for the torture that I make it endure

How will I reach my end goal when more than half the day I spend sleeping

Or at least I am supposed to be sleeping

Its funny how I need sleep to be able to function

But how am I ever going to function if sleep just doesn't come as second nature to me

Sleeping is a privilege that I've come to expect that I have no right