Sleep

I am in a business class that requires me to post 150 words every week about a topic or something I've learned during the week. Ideally, the teacher would like for me to tell him some business acumen that I have gained over the week. Instead, I write him things like this...

Sleeping is one thing that I do the best

I am most clever when taking a rest

Scoffers say sleeping is done only at night

But I say that sleeping can be done in the light!

You may exclaim that “this girl is crazy!”

Others will point and say that I’m lazy.

But they are all wrong; I am none of those things

I simply enjoy the peace that sleep brings

My friends have found that I sleep anywhere

In a bed, on a couch, and sometimes a chair

I can sleep in quiet and sleep through loud bangs

I can sleep with a headache and through hunger pangs

I have slept in the library with people around

And several times have fallen asleep on the ground.

Sometimes sleep hits me when I am least ready.

I slump in my chair and my eyelids get heavy.

Fighting is useless as I have now found

Coffee helps not, though I drink by the pound.

Once I awoke to my mom’s shoulder shaking

As she told me to run just as I was waking

Tornado sirens were filling the air

But I hadn’t heard them. I was unaware.

Some think that sleeping should be done when you’re dead

But that thought is horrid. They’re not right in the head.