Elusive sleep bestows shimmering kisses

Smoothing willing eyes with her benign 

Temptation. Submit, she bids. Abide, she wishes

Repose in Lethe, shroud of forgetful divine.

Hand in gentle hand, she winds her labyrinth

Around the cruel enigmas of your soul.

The spectral cocoon of this drowsy nymph

Brushing invisible rainbow, paints you whole.

But you lie heedless of her gossamer call

A wonderer, wandering darkly through

A fractured conscious, obscure mirrored hall;

Mysterious, worldless, slumberless you.

Clawing at the bleeding dark, wall of words at your head

Velvet tears, light crawls in, illumines numb and weary dread.

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