Sleep Cycle

Sleep cycle



Another sleepless night Tossing and turning No end in sight my mind keeps wandering

Praying for ease the heat keeps on rising This all encompassing fever the world melting in place My body yearning for cool gentle grace



Breathing in Half out aw Out of brea towards the

n the murky air f asleep half alive t of focus I find world out of place Trapped inside a concrete cage ath running finish line But what then!

What will appear Anguish

when nothings clear Despair Turmoil

What w What will persist if nothing exists Can you even perceive it

will we negate this time

My thoughts they echo on to th crackling sound of this world set ablaze Beginning a new perhaps without us one day

he

For now we daz making our w the h Standing in l body an From another nig

wake in a ze way through haze line exerted nd mind r sleepless ght

Rifkin, Daniel I., M Melissa J “Climate Change and Review of the Litera Framew Sleep Medicine Revie December https://www.sciencedi ticle/pii/S1087

Michael W. Long, and J. Perry. Sleep: A Systematic ature and Conceptual work.” ews. W.B. Saunders, r 2018. irect.com/science/ar- 7079218300765.

Author & Illustrator Brishna Amin Khan