A Poem for Those Who Struggle To Sleep at Night

Though it’s becoming relatively less frequent as I grow older, my mind has always been the most numb with thoughts at night. They would overlap with each other, argue with each other, talk to me, sing to me, and before I knew it, it would be two a.m. in the morning.

Every night, I would watch my sister in the bed beside me sleeping so blissfully – and what’s more, so easily – that I couldn’t help but feel a sense of admiration but also frustration in the same time.

How does she do that? Why can’t I do the same?

I would feel quite alone at night.

It felt like I was the only one struggling to sleep, with everyone else in my house in complete silence. I would stare at my Cinderella-patterned wallpapered ceiling for hours, like watching paint dry…..

I Want to Spend Late Nights Like Sleeping Beauty

— faustina

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To those who struggle to sleep at night,

Don’t you worry, there are thousands around the world awake, trying to fall asleep, at this hour too 🙂

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