Insomniac

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I've deprived my body, my flesh, of sleep.

1 hour,2 hours,3 hours, 4.

The difference isn't felt.

While I'm up, depriving my body, I'm feeding my mind.

Maybe it'll kill me one day.

I sleep now because, it'd be inhumane not to.

Nowadays, I question my humanity.

Advancement is good.

It is the isolation of one's self from simplicity.

But as we've probably learnt by now,simplicity is best.

I sleep out of mere acknowledgment that, while my soul is immortal, my body is not.

I sleep not to rest, or relax.

I sleep because my soul has already been identified as a different being from my body.

So, in the realization of this, I ask myself:

Is sleep really necessary for our soul?

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