Ode to Sleep

by Liam

As this fair day doth softly fade to night,

The sun’s warm beams now gently cease to light.

It’s twilight hues across heavens’ canvas spread,

With azure melting softly into rosy red.

The golden luster wanes, yet still it stays,

A reminding tender echo of the sunlit days.

This fleeting bliss, across my momentary grace,

In love’s embrace, I find thy star filled gorgeous face.

Thou art an angel, dancing high and free,

Thy form, a vision in the twilight sea.

Amongst the clouds, thou flittest ‘cross mine eye,

Thy visage graces all the boundless sky.

Thy horizon, with me now, doth proclaim,

And stars, like jewels, adorn the night on high.

With sparks and dreams, with glimmers bright and clear,

Our souls entwine, in this one rapture’s sphere.

As I now close mine eyes to slumber deep,

The wonder of this night in heart I’ll keep.

Till dawn’s first light doth chase the dark away,

And with thee, love, I’ll greet our new-born day.

Together then, the morning song we’ll raise,

In harmony, through all our waking days.

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