sometimes it's so hard to go to sleep
not because I don't enjoy sleeping
but because I don't want another day to end
one more day
when you are only allotted so many days on this fine earth

when I was a kid
(it always goes back to when I was a kid)
when I was a kid
one day felt like 100 years... I did so much
you lived 1000 lives in one day
now? not so much
but I try

I have lived in many places
I have many lovely memories
but I want more, more, more memories
that involve travel and distance and new glimpses of new landscapes
new experiences, new faces, new roads, new smells

I can't drive on the same road every day
without going a little more bonkers
something's gotta change
something's gotta give
something's gotta evolve
something
and it is
but it's sllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww

I know you can travel deep inside
your inner world's child
can be the harbinger of unimaginable truths
and that's fine
but sometimes
you also need
the actual physical touch
of a rock you've never seen
moss that you've never felt
sand in your eyes and grit in your teeth
scents that make you close your eyes and remember the sea
sometimes you need to be
bombarded by too much stimulation

so that your mind
has to find a new way to make it all make sense
and when it does
you become
a better person