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when your lids become too heavy

and it stings too much to keep your eyes open much longer...

blink!

                                                                          of 

then depending on the angle of elevation 

                                                                                  your

                                                                 p      i      l      l      o      w

you'll feel a drop trickle down either your

right temple

or

your 

right cheek.

say it takes the first route

it finds itself at your ear and decides to trace your auricle 

leaving an unbearable 

c

     h

 i

     l 

        l

with each swirl it passes

this discomfort starts to alternate between both ears rather swiftly 

you resort to lying on your 

s

i

d

e

the salt pool in your right ear quickly disappears into the canal 

while the other empties out onto 

the sky blue covers which 

have now darkened 

into a deep ocean 

thriving with

sharks

ah

they're finally out

time to flip that pillow over

leaving the weight of your newly freed mind to

bury what had been killing you on the inside all this while