Fatigue

Being tired can affect you in so many ways.

The garment of sloth is heavy on my frail body.

 

Am I in space? No, just on the planet earth. Gravity has intensified by 100. Immovable.

Blink. Darkness. Blink. Light. Blink. Death. Blink. Life.

 

Bloodshot.

 

5 years have passed--No, 5 minutes. When is dinner going to arrive? Slits have now replaced what used to be eyes. I'm not a druggie. Just an insomniac.

 

Ow! She says she pinched me 10 minutes ago. That's a lie. lie. lie. Oh, that's. that's that's what that was, was, was, and it wasn't my bed. bed. bed.

 

It's so not true, you don't have to be drunk to not walk in a straight line. Thank God my shoulders are attached to my body, or by now, I'd be a walking limb with no shoulders.

 

What did I just say?

 

I take the garment off.

Author's Note

I learned something called 'defamiliarisation' in my creative writing course, and it just means to make something that is familiar, unfamiliar. I'm trying to find my muse again with it.

Reviews

[Jūdan FyreHeart]

XD I'm an awful insomniac so I can entirely relate to this piece. You did a good job on getting the bleary eyed, can't even think straight feeling.