Go ahead. Stay in bed.
Snuggle into the soft pillow. Pull the warm blanket up. You have earned it — you, specifically, have earned the right to lie there while it gets late.
Hit snooze. Hit it again. Hit it a third time, really savor that one. And that voice, the quiet one asking you to get up and go to work — ignore it. It is only your own potential begging. Nothing urgent.
Do not think about the fact that some of us have been up for two hours already, grinding in the dark while you dream. Do not picture it. It will only disturb your rest. And honestly, you will never feel us pass you. We will be so far ahead you will not even register the moment we ran you over.
Enjoy the complaining later. The crying about how you never got yours, how it was not fair, how the ones who made it must have been lucky. Enjoy all of it.
The wolves are already awake. They hunt while you sleep, and they are not sentimental about the soft.
So go ahead, stay down. Stay warm. Stay comfortable.
The rest of us will be gone before you open your eyes.
