How do you nap

when your thoughts flow as a flood
but your lids heavy
with the exhaustion of
your world?

when you can't quite find
the comfortable tangle of
sweaty legs and soothing blankets
as well as Teddy?

when you're calm and dozing
but cannot for the life
of you remember how it is
you switch to unconscious?

when your head hits the pillow fast
but gradually that one line
of light moves to exactly
face-, then eye-level?

I do not know,
but one may persist
and be successful in their napping
endeavours

Or one may give up,
doomed to spend their day
half-asleep and
merely passing time.

© Charlie 2013