What’s Something That Bothers You? Going to Sleep

a poem prompted by you

Photo by Megan te Boekhorst on Unsplash

What’s something
that bothers you?

To me, I might say
the sound of styrofoam against styrofoam,
or people who show up late,

but for some
it’s the act of falling asleep,
something much more predictably
an event to…