Please Grant Me

Please grant me a peaceful sleep like a black hawk drifting into a distant mountain range pleased to glide out of sight on an air-thermal conducting electricity like a silent symphony. Please allow me one last happy dream again before I descend like a falcon or a fallen aspen leaf always to mulch in the shade of pain and hurt. Please permit me something fleeting without regret all I ask is a simple death with my head resting on your knees with a final tear, a final laugh and an angel kiss, before I enter the quicksand and let go of your hands and once again, like a child, learn to stand alone. all I ask is for you to guide me home and make this world glow like coals in my heart as it unleashes its last breath and lets me go.