Sleep

Sleep
Where are you
My yawns & silent sighs
Call you out, while
Hours & hours
Slip by
Please
Any minutes
Will do

Sleep
The sheep are loose
No moon to jump
The bedding’s crumpled
My partner
Long, long
Gone
Alone once more
Ahhaaaaaaag

Sleep
Protect me
Inject
The squid’s black ink &
Slip away
Taken down
To the darkest dark
Among the bottom crawlers &
Nevertobeseen til when

Sleep
Just as the night
Puts the day to bed
Here,
Night seldom comes
You tease
Showing yourself
In the slumber
Of the babe
I smell

Sleep
Are you not the gentlest
Or are you
The shady agent
One who starves
I know not which