Bedtime

Sleep well, fair jewel
Have many a pleasent dream,
And not like me,
From whom they elicit but
a scream...
The night is young,
The moon is high
I wish you rest,
With underlying sigh,
I wish for me,
it'd be so too...
To sleep with peace...
To wake anew....
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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