These poems are about the countless nights I couldn't sleep- the things that wouldn't leave my mind however hard I tried to avoid them. These words are the inner me reminding myself- that I am wasting my life in an eight-hour job, that I am merely existing and not living. These are the reminders which told me that I was forgetting that I am mortal. I hope this becomes a reminder to you too- to live to be. -Amar