In the middle <br />of an uneventful week <br />with miles of disappointment <br />and circled in endless space of red brown terrain <br />and even in the middle of unending uncertainty <br />may you sleep well tonight <br />may you sleep quiet and tight <br />undisturbed by your mind <br />undisturbed by alarms in the psyche <br />undisturbed by haggard sirens within. <br />Sleep well and not awake till late in the morning <br />and not be wakened for a pee or for a drink <br />to keep the dry burning throat wet <br />or be wakened by thoughts that have their own <br />volition <br />that clamour like crabs in a rattan basket. <br />May you sleep well and sleep tight, <br />and rise rested and ready <br />unsuspecting of a better day. <br /> <br /> <br />Let loose <br />and sleep well; <br />do not dwell long too much on things that could be <br />on what you could have done <br />and must be done; <br />let go <br />and sometimes trust in things <br />to sort themselves out <br />for the way does <br />what the will cannot <br /> <br /> <br />Do what you can, <br />let go and sleep well; <br />do not dwell again and again on <br />how else you can fight <br />how else you can control events and <br />not let them master you <br />to make meaning out of things nebulous <br />and out of your control <br />and why circumstances and events don't <br />shape and move like they can or should <br /> <br />Sometimes let things sort <br />themselves out; <br />for chance works better <br />than control and order <br /> <br /> <br />Let go, sleep well, <br />take yourself deep into your burrow <br />so deep nothing can find you <br />so you can take the rest that will give you <br />the strength to meet again the waiting <br />that may leap up again and again <br />like the ubiquitous kangaroo <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(from The Migrant - notes of a newcomer (February 1997- July 1998))<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gentle-sleep/
