Welcome Sweet Sleep

Before I drift
into the perplexing night
for refuge and mercy,

let me dedicate these thoughts
to the delivery of the soul
from all that we grapple to understand
with the mind.

Let the sleep that will soon overtake me
be filled with the treasure of the true self;
those tiny gems of living fully.

The heart is, by all accounts,
the beloved neighbor
who loves us
for exactly who we are
and who needs no license
to take away the boundaries
where love has been caught

in the wires of fear
and someone else's distant picture
of peace that doesn't include
a lullabye.