Chasing Z's

You can never quite catch up on sleep.

Which is a shame because I am forever chasing it.

I am forever losing it.

I never think about morning me, that has to be up at 6 am, when I stay up late into the night & occasionally into the first cracks signalling dawn.

Morning me despises night before me.

& every morning she makes a vow to go to bed early from now on.

So far, that vow has been broken, every night.

Lost sleep is hard to reclaim. 

Almost impossible.

But Sundays often bring me long, drawn out sleep ins that I feel I have deserved throughout my 5 days of early, too soon risings.

You can't get the lost sleep back.

But you can sure as hell try