{"id":13570,"date":"2021-04-04T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/?p=13570"},"modified":"2021-04-04T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:53:00","slug":"sleep-for-eight-hours-still-wake-up-befuddled-napowrimo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/04\/sleep-for-eight-hours-still-wake-up-befuddled-napowrimo-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep for eight hours, still wake up befuddled – #NaPoWriMo 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overwhelmed and restless on a Sunday
Sunny bright and airy
Quarantine and deadlines
Oh, how I want to pack up and go away!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Birds flying and chirping happily
9 am and late for bedroom class
Will they shut up? Their cheeriness is so silly.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endless work. Endless hustle.
Slow progress. Leaves me bitter.
Sleep for eight hours.
Still wake up befuddled.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have we become?
I don’t see an out.
Only struggle and struggle
Happy moments sprinkled around.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, the grinch did not visit me.
No, this isn’t me each day
Just your average twenty-something.
Trying to build a better life for better days<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Tavleen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overwhelmed and restless on a SundaySunny bright and airyQuarantine and deadlinesOh, how I want to pack up and go away!<\/p>\n

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