Sleep Dear! Hold Me Tight

Now that the world has brushed me aside Ambition to make a difference isn't mine Plumes of youth fallen to dust Body frail and longing hushed I am so willing to fall in your arms Sleep dear! Hold me tight Let me wander in a land afar Where loving hearts still come to greet Some from the world of light Others of gleaming earthly delight All breaking the barriers of time and distance I thank them all for that glad reunion When sleep comes in installments It charges dues from anxious mind Forbidding entrance to that serene world Where about of that I only wonder How rejuvenating to clamp down on clamor Move beyond REM and sleep spindles Lose all awareness of thought and feeling To see, hear or know nothing To slide in that blissful ignorance! Sleep dear! Be kind to me Keep me in your gentle embrace Let me recede beyond the deepest layers of subconscious Offer that quiet ambiance of nonexistence more often!