Insomnia

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Crooked eyes and the smell of blood filling my nostrils. A nosebleed?

My body, dry and cold in the morning and then too warm and clammy when I try to sleep. No wonder I have a constant head ache.

I woke up at 4 a.m. today, and the next day, and the next day and could not go back to sleep. It won't let me. Why won't It let me sleep? 

It's not a superpower, I tell them. It's a curse. The dark circles are not a mask to hide my identity, they are simply there to mark me. I don't have the eyes of a dead fish because I want to intimidate people, it's simply the result of staring at my ceiling in the darkness too much. I don't frown because I hate being around others, it's because I ponder over the hours of sleep I have lost.

Another night, another failure.

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