【novel】

daily life

From the day I borrowed the book, a few days have slipped by.

I have been swept along by lectures and shifts,

chasing time that never seems to wait.

Even when I think, tonight, I’ll read it—

the moment I return home,

my strength abandons me,

and sleep claims me whole.

I still haven’t opened that book.

Ah… I’m so tired.

Tonight again, after work,

I reached my room

and, without a thought,

threw myself onto the bed

as if surrendering to gravity itself.

Lying there,

I let my mind wander—

to the weight of university days,

to the quiet exhaustion of part-time hours.

And as those thoughts drifted,

my eyelids grew heavier,

like dusk settling over a silent sky—

until, before I knew it,

I had fallen

into a deep, unbroken sleep