Insight

You can't know what it's like.

When every minute drags longer than the last.
The beat of your heart echoes in the emptiness of your head.
The darkness seems to swim around you.
Your brain gets tired of black and invents colour by itself.
The tick and tock of the clock; the only thing breaking the deafening silence.


Your mind runs away with cars passing by.
Your imagination floods with irrationality.
Thoughts zoom through your consciousness and find no audience.

Waiting for sleep to arrest you.

To swoop down on you and rescue you from the misery.

But help is not forthcoming.
Behold, the cavalry isn't on its way.

It's you versus the night.

Every moment is a battle.
Who will buckle first?
Will the night end before your sanity does?

Round 1.
Fight.