Sleep

What cannot be repaired by sweet sweet sleep? Overgrown minds you must prune and must tend Forget all the pain you don’t need to keep All the days sorrows that cause you to weep Candy coat them, at least sweeten the end What cannot be repaired by sweet sweet sleep? The dangerous thoughts and shadows that creep You say they’re gone but you only pretend Forget all the pain you don’t need to keep Once in sleep one can dream, run, dance, and leap The enemy, the mind, finally a friend What cannot be repaired by sweet sweet sleep? Count the bobbing heads of dreamy white sheep With airy tranquility they may mend What cannot be repaired by sweet sweet sleep? Quiet now, quiet now, falling down deep Thoughts are changing, deeper still, watch them bend What cannot be repaired by sweet sweet sleep? Let go of the pain you don’t need to keep