Sing me to Sleep
Sing me to sleep
Oh still gentle serenade
A subtle breezy lullaby will do
To pull down heavy black drapes
over these beleaguered eyeballs
these liquid lenses long seen all
All the sorry earth let grow
Sing me a song to take me away
Far from this unreal reality
to a land where we walk on clouds
and trees grow old in the skies
where the wind is happy
where the moon is proud at noonday
Where be grey Morpheus?
To sing me a silver lullaby
and ferry me to where angels sleep
for mine eyes tire of salt
and the clock ticks in vain
if this here be wakefulness
then I yearn to sleep and dream
© Henry Akuete 2019
Oh still gentle serenade
A subtle breezy lullaby will do
To pull down heavy black drapes
over these beleaguered eyeballs
these liquid lenses long seen all
All the sorry earth let grow
Sing me a song to take me away
Far from this unreal reality
to a land where we walk on clouds
and trees grow old in the skies
where the wind is happy
where the moon is proud at noonday
Where be grey Morpheus?
To sing me a silver lullaby
and ferry me to where angels sleep
for mine eyes tire of salt
and the clock ticks in vain
if this here be wakefulness
then I yearn to sleep and dream
© Henry Akuete 2019
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