A lullaby.

If you can't sleep remember that there is someone out there who thinks about you when they write. Remember that the pyramids in Egypt line up with stars in space, think about your heart and how it beats at the same time as someone miles and miles and miles and miles away remember that there is someone out there that feels exactly how you feel. Think about how you have heard somewhere that without a big toe you would have to relearn how to walk. Count the time between inhales and count the times you have failed, call them "the regrets for another day" tell yourself you exsist, wonder about who you would be if you were born somewhere else, think about learning a new language. Play the same song over and over in your head listen to the train that is coming and the wind that is blowing. When you can't sleep think about a person's smile that you've memorized, think back on times when you wished you would have said something, done something, tried something. Think again about trying them. Think about nice dinners and formal dances and wedding receptions. Think about frog feet and pillows and pool parties. Think about sleep. Physics taught me the stuff we call air can be thought of as a fluid. And just like water in a cool summer time pool your actions can be felt by others within the same fluid. Raise your hand up, push on the air around you, and cause a storm in France, the butterfly effect. Remember you matter. Remember you are important, remember you are loved. Now close your eyes, and feel sleep pull you in like sinking, and dream of summer. 

      

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-J