Joel Avatari

Dear Sleep,

Hey there, it’s been a while, huh?  I haven’t seen much of you lately and I have to admit, I kind of miss you.

I guess we’re both very busy now, you, with your successful career and me with my new angel, Zoei. Remember a little over a month ago we usually hang out ever single night for at least six to eight hours a day?  We usually just chill in my bed with the AC turned on and we’d chat and stare at each other all day. You’d usually laugh out loud when you hear me snore and smile when I completely surrender to your embrace.

Usually though you leave in the middle of the night and I stand up because I have to urinate and drink a glass of water and I do this courageously because deep in my heart I know you’d return.

You always do.

Until now. We barely see each other and to those times we do see each other, we’re always in a hurry it’s like you don’t have time for me anymore, or is it the other way around? We don’t spend enough time together and although I know, it’s not hurting you; it’s been hurting me everyday. You’ve taken the life out of me, Sleep. I’m like a walking zombie without and I don’t know how long I’ll last like this. But I promise you this; I will never give up on you.

Sleep, all I want to say is that whatever happens, I’ll be here – waiting. I do hope that this rough patch we’re going through is just a phase. No, I don’t hope it. I believe it. Please come back to me.

Yours,

Joel