Slumber, My Dearest Friend

Sleep, oh slumber

My dearest friend,

Verily to you I come again.

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For what burdens

I cannot bare

When life becomes too weary

For me to care

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I shrink from life

And curl up in your embrace

To sleep away the pain of things

I cannot face.

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A better friend I could not find

Your sweet velvety darkness

Doth ease the cruelties

That torture my mind

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Others tell me

I should abandon you

That our bond is not healthy

That you are stealing my life oh so stealthy

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What do they know of us?

How can they not see

That I am good with thee

And you are good with me

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Perhaps it is jealousy

They long for what we have perhaps?

Would true friends deprive us

Of the comforts we provide each each other?

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The velvety darkness of your embrace

Is a much better place for me

than when my eyes are wide

and the pain and corruptness gnaws at my insides

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Who that loves me would deny me this mercy

Which I could seek in a thousand different ways

That could verily take me to a grave?

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Instead, I lay in slumber

rather than in stupor

And I dream of things that make me smile

And those dreams help me live this life a longer while.

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So do not try to rip me from the bossom

of my good friend

That allows my tears to dry

And trail no more to drip from chin

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Allow me this sweet escape

Until I am ready to dream less

And live more.

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Darkness, my beloved, embrace me once more

They shall not take you from me just yet

For I still have much I wish to forget.