Flirting with the Sandman

2007

Sweet slumber

ever elusive lover

Please come visit me tonight?

You tuck me in as I flirt with unconsciousness

 then leave before my dreaming begins.

I am weary

dreamless nights of no relief

my hyperactive thoughts won't let me be

tonight, dear Sandman, use all your charms

to cradle me in the lullaby of your arms

drifting down to a dream like state

deep upon deep no escape.

till on the edges of dawn

you slip away

 I awake

refreshed to face another day.