Daniel Hunter Poet Free verse

Slumber

Slumber

I went to bed
when my child was one.
I awoke to find
she was six.

I am in a dream,
I thought. 

I fell asleep
with a six year old 
on my lap.
I awoke,
she was twelve. 

I will try not to sleep..

But I took a nap
In the noon day sun
while a twelve year
 old played
I awoke to find 
her twenty. 

I lay in bed,
afraid to sleep.
But it's too late,
she is gone.

9.16.18

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