By Paragi Agarwal
It’s 3 AM and
I’m wide awake
My eyes are tired but
My mind’s in a race
No side of the pillow feels right
Tossing & turning all through the night
Changing the sheets again & again
But sleep’s a bitch, who won’t listen
There is darkness all around me now
Yet my eyes’ a projector somehow
Playing the memories-
On repeat
Like an old tape stuck in defeat
The room is silent
Yet everything feels so loud
Like I’m standing in a busy station
Just lost in the crowd
The clock keeps ticking
The time passes by
But my mind stays open
Still stuck in the night
Pull the blanket over my head
Try to bring my eyes to rest
Morning has come to greet the night
Another battle I lost tonight.