Modelling Raccoon's Mask

struggling with insomnia.

Most normal people

Have long gone to bed

But I'm not normal

Far from it.

As tonight appears

To be another night

Where I can

Only dream of sleep.

Adding another 8 hours

To the growing total

That I owe.

Am scared

If I looked

At my sleep account

Morpheus' sand would bury me

Up to my neck.

Wonder

Does Morpheus charge

A rental fee

For all of His sand

I am storing?

Sigh.

It's sad

When you stop and think 

An average cat spends

More time awake

Than I do asleep

On most days.

Author's Note

The title is a refer to the dark black circles that surround my eyes, which looks like the mask that surrounds the Raccoon, the North American cousin, of the Panda.