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Sleep Tight

Sleep Tight Shuffle now accordingly off to bed you go, you asked so long ago to change the cards I dealt you; but God responded with stagger in the void…this was all foretold, This was all a scheming pattern new; a dream was All you had…like concrete hard untrue; crack it with the Sky, hold it in your trembling sweaty hands, this timing now is due, Brother, that is what I call you, all equal parts Desire and sweat and sinew, for all is young but old this way: You stepped from a car, a child – the stars danced In disarray, yet the space set so finely between those facets Held every dream in place; such beauty darts a flush red scheme tonight across your face; what bounty held between the brightness in your eyes? Shuffle now, no bother for the mourning; Ruthless is the Devil, but clueless are his keepers here among us; they are clever present, they are all in a heap Beneath your bed – Shhhh! Sleep tight oh Brother, sleep tight.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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