Greetings fellow Steemians! Here is my 33rd 5 minute freewrite. The prompt is: "sleep".

(Full disclosure, this piece took me longer than 5 minutes to write. But it might be the closest one yet: only 7 minutes from start to finish!!!)

Freewriting is a daily practice for most poets and fiction writers, designed to loosen up and get things flowing, like stretching before exercise. Visual artists, especially those who draw or paint from life (figures, landscapes, still lives, etc) do something similar in "gesture drawings". After reading several of @poetrybyjeremy's freewrite posts, I got excited to try these again. Many thanks to @mariannewest for hosting this daily freewrite!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-160-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-tiger

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Sleep

Fighting it
Again
Against my better judgement
Locked in this life-and-death embrace
For longer than I can remember
As if we were sworn enemies
As if I'd been trained
From birth
To hate
As if my bed were a kidnapper's trunk
And no one to pay the ransom
And I might never wake
To pick up where I left off
Accomplish all that I've hoodwinked myself into believing
I might somehow find the time to do
As if life
Were too important
For dreams.

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