Pillow

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I stayed up some nights,
So late
that I felt the world finally stop breathing,
And so early
that I heard nature greet the day with caws.

There's a period in time
when you stay up late with someone
And it's the calmest wave in an ocean
And carries the silence of a desert
Both of you are exhausted
Having talked of everything that night
So now you relax
Basking in comfort of the others company
Listening to breath that's slowing down
As the night weighs your body further into bed
And pulls your eyelids over like blankets

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