Light

It bugs me.

Because it gets into my eyes.

Not during the day so much,

although if it is sunny

I do perpetually wear sunglasses.

No.

It's at night when I am trying to sleep.

My door doesn't close all the way,

and so light seeps in through this crack and invades my eyelids.

Even if said light is downstairs.

It finds it's way up the hall stairs,

into my room,

and directly to my retinas.

Even if said light is filtering through the curtained window in the room across the hall,

if that door is left open,

through the crack in that door,

through the crack in my door,

it assaults my eyeballs.

I can't even have an digital alarm clock.

Even if I turn the clock away from me,

the light bounces off the wall and finds it's way in.

Cover it with a towel, or other article of clothing?

It seeps through and glows at me.

So this is why I have a thick sleeping bag tacked up

over the pretty white lacy curtain hanging in my window.

And this is why I am very careful to turn out every single light

before I go to bed.

And make sure all the room doors are closed.

I think I should sleep in a cave.

Except that they're cold and damp.

And I can't sleep then, either.