O Sleep

O Sleep, come for me, I will go quietly,

where the roof doesn’t leak in my heart.

O Sleep, come for me,

I’m a boat, sprung a leak,

I’ll hide and you’ll seek a new start

for me. Until dawn, I’ll be too gone

to care how grey the day is.

The dreams that it chases away,

they stay asleep.

O Sleep, come for me,

I will come willingly,

like a leaf from a tree in October.

O Sleep, come for me, I wait hopefully.

I was drunk on a dream, now I’m sober.

From now until dawn,

it can’t be too long for me,

I count the hours

‘til I sleep with your feet by my feet,

your breath on my cheek, asleep.

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