Sleep

Night stretches its storm

Never ceasing

And I toss in her waves

Never sleeping

For she comes on like death

Leaving me weeping

Always waking in her fold

Never sleeping

She dances rattling bones

Never ceasing

For her insides are my home

Never sleeping

I come to her alone

She leaves me bleeding

Offering up my ragged soul

Never sleeping

For she is knitting skin from hair

Never ceasing

My raveled sleeve of care

Refuses weaving

I call to her in echoes

Never ceasing

That we might lie together

Never sleeping

Through a night lasting forever

Never ceasing

And sleep, sleep, just sleep.

©shaun patrick green 2011