5 minute freewrite 2198 prompt a little nap

This is my post for #freewriters 2198 prompt a little nap hosted by @mariannewest and @daily.prompt.

I am not sure why this is but when we are babies we seem to need a lot of naps, several a day. But as we grow our naps get further and further in between.

At 4 or 5 months old we are still taking several naps a day.

At three years old we are down to one a day and it does not matter where we nap at.

Sleep can come after lunch while camping on an island.

Or it can come when you are snuggled up on an air mattress in the tent.

When you are older and find a hammock in a store, you close your eyes and hope you do not fall asleep where everyone can see you sleeping.

As you age you find that some days you still need to take a little nap.

But once you get into your 60s something strange happens, you need more than a little nap it is like you have gone back to being an infant, your sleep at night has been interrupted, and you are up several times either needing to go to the bathroom or you just wake and can not seem to go back to sleep. Nothing I try will let me sleep through the night. Sometimes I can take a nap in the afternoon and sleep for a couple of hours, other days like today my eyes are heavy but I can not sleep.

Please just let me sleep

My mind thinks the thoughts
that makes me feel strung out and lost

Try as I may, sleep is far away.

I finally find sleep but now
I need to pee, I stumble to
the bathroom then back to bed
but now I can not keep the thoughts
out of my head.

I find sleep once again
and awake to find an hour
is all it has been.

I watch TV until sleep
comes in deep, but only
another hour has passed,
oh, how I need sleep.

It is daylight and stay awake,
maybe later a little nap
I will take.

photos are mine