My eyelids are flicking <br />Tired of all day vision <br />And my soul sedately sinking. <br />Let me sleep! <br />. <br />I have toiled towards my aim <br />Bearing truth and morality in mind. <br />Let haunting thoughts melt like flame <br />And at peace, let me sleep! <br />. <br />My supplication done and said <br />I banish all raging nightmares <br />That may wander about my bed. <br />Now, let me sleep! <br />. <br />And the moon to west relapses <br />While I, snoring in sonorous silence <br />And when the moon-time elapses, <br />Rekindle me, O heaven! <br />.<br /><br />Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/let-me-sleep-at-bedtime/
