Insomnia

You lie in the dark. Your body is tired, exhausted to the bone — but your mind refuses to switch off. Thoughts pass by like an endless stream: lists, worries, half-finished conversations from yesterday, scenarios for tomorrow. You turn over. You look at the clock. Three more hours. Two more. One. And then, just as you're about to drift off, an adrenaline rush — something unfinished, undone, uncertain yanks you back into wakefulness. In the morning you don't feel like someone who has slept. You feel like someone who has just worked a night shift.