It’s 1:30 a.m., my wife is out of town, and this is how I feel.
“Still Awake”
The dog is asleep under his blanket
The crickets are playing their third song
The rhythmic ticking from the cheap kitchen clock
Keeps time as I muddle along
With my typing, spacing, deleting
Of words that seem right, then wrong
It’s late, but I’m doing my best to take stock
Of the reasons I’ve been awake so long.
It’s not so hard when I leave her at home
I guess I tend to focus on the task when I’m gone
But when she leaves I feel disconnected
There are things to do, but I feel misdirected
I need her more than she needs me
I don’t want to go to bed, it’s hard to sleep
The hotel bed is not her spot
The bed at home is where she’s not
I don’t want to roll over and…well… fear
I just like it better when she’s here.
The Recovering Legalist 
And we have only just got up! I have made the tea and put food out for the birds. The newspaper has just come through the letterbox. It’s another new day.
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I’m laying here wide awake too. Missing my hubs because he thinks my Fibro body sleeps better with no one in bed next to me. He’s right and his sacrifice to sleep in the extra bedroom is beautiful, but painful in a different way. Bad day for several reasons in our house. Including that second Derecho that just came through an hour ago. I’m tired of this Midwest weather. I’m rambling. Something I do at 1 o’clock in the morning.
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Good news is that we brought the umbrella in ahead of it. 😉
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I sooo get this. When my husband is gone I have to try to sleep on the couch – may time pass quickly until you two are together again!
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I miss my wife when she is gone sometimes. And other times I think–MORE BED FOR ME!
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Last night my wife’s little dog, Nugget, finally decided to get in bed with me. Since she had been gone he has been having a sleepover with my daughter’s dog in another room. Well, last night my sleeping alone turned into waking up multiple times with either paws in my back or feeling like I was sleeping with a heating pad.
7 lbs of annoyance.
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