Think

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I lie awake in a pitch-black bedroom 

with a notebook of my thoughts tucked neatly under my pillow, 

which is tucked neatly under my head.


"Perhaps I should keep writing," I mutter into the midnight air, 

a drawl to my voice that can only be awarded by sleepless exhaustion.


"NO," my mind replies.


"Why not?" I ask.


To which my mind replies, "If you don't take a break and think, you'll burn out. If you keep writing, there will be nothing left to think about. ... I'll be empty."


I let that steep, then reply,

"Ah, now I didn't think about that."

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