Now I lay me down to sleep. <br />Hopefully I will not wake. <br />I give my body and soul the lord to keep. <br />For it is my life I wish to take. <br />I cannot live in a land of fake. <br /> <br />There is no other way left. <br />Just the face of death. <br />Through the open door I must go. <br />I just cannot stay. <br />In to death I must sway. <br /> <br />Now my life I'm about to take. <br />No matter how hard it should be. <br />Now I lay me down to sleep. <br />In the morning light I shall not wake. <br /> <br />Now Im free once again. <br />My life I have now slain<br /><br />Amy Louise Kerswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep-3/