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My Last Sleep

Could this very sleep I sleep be the one that I shall not ever awaken from? Might it be and may it be my last sleep too deep, too dark to get far away from. Long I have feared it and long fought it, faced it, even have run away from... Now I think, I will lie down half awake where I am surely safe here to stay some. If I should not awake, bad turn to take please recall all the good that I had done. Weep not, I will rise by next sunrise within those lives who have not yet begun. Look for reawakening - find it in us all - in morning sun, in kind, in kin.

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Date: 7/29/2020 12:55:00 AM
That's a really touching and soothing sonnet Greg. Congratulations on your win! :)
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Greg Gaul
Date: 7/29/2020 5:29:00 PM
Thank you for noticing. Your comments are encouraging and helpful.
Date: 7/27/2020 8:30:00 PM
A beautiful sonnet, which was joy to read. :)
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Greg Gaul
Date: 7/28/2020 3:46:00 AM
Thanks so much for your kind commentary.

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