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Escaping Reality

February 23, 2010
By _Jinx_ GOLD, Liberty, South Carolina
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I lay away,
The minutes
Chasing hours
Falling into days.

I blink away
The blinding
Seconds,
The taunting
Weeks.

Each heart beat,
once again
Pumps blood
To my
Waiting veins.

Each breath
Forming
A tantalizing
Cacophony
Just like the
Ones before.

My fingers
Trace
The folds
Of whispering
Blanket green.

My finger-prints,
Clinging to
Each fiber.

Heavy lids
Hiding from
Me
The roof
Above.

And then I
Drift away
To a sweet
slumber.

© Carollynn G., Hawthorne, NY

The author's comments:
I wrote this after waking up from a nap, thinking about how sleep brings me peace.
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