Sleep

We used to live by the sun, by the call of our mothers for breakfast 

We hated sleep 

Time moved faster and we got smarter so, we’d awake to alarms 

We didn’t need sleep, we had too much we want to do 

Things we wanted to see  

Time slowed and we slowed 

We wake up tired with long lists to complete

We never slept, it held us back 

We wake up to bills and work and everything else 

What happened to us? 

When did we stop living? 

Was it when we began to walk the halls, late to every class? 

When bills began to call our names?

When we failed to make other expectations

Or 

We did but we still didn’t make our own 

Why can’t we live by the sun again? 

Because we’re 18 and this is where our lives are supposed to begin 

But, really all we want to do it sleep 

We don’t want our lives to begin, we want it to start over 

So we can sleep til the sun rises and never be tired again