Read or Sleep?

I know sleep is precious but I cannot resist

Staying up late to read a book with an unexpected plot twist

To put a book down just because it is past midnight

Is something I cannot bring myself to do, even as I fight

A battle between my mind that tells me to go to bed

And my heart that tells me to finish the book instead..

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Reading is considered a good way

To wind down and relax at the end of the day

But someone like me must be careful to choose

The right book for bedtime reading, or else I might lose

Myself in the plot and stay up way too late

Leaving me to spend the next day in a sleep-deprived state

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Unfortunately I do this all too often for my good

I would prioritize sleep over reading if I could

Get over a lifelong habit of reading late at night

Reaching the end of a book before going to bed just feels so right!