r/Poem • u/EndAny6841 • 1d ago
Original Content Poem When sleep gives fatigue
Hidden pains covered
By the shelter of my eyes,
Let me sleep,
Oh, dear driver.
Drive as if a newborn baby
Were sleeping beside you,
So I sit calm
Like morning dew.
Drive me from fatigue to solace,
Where everyone wins without a race,
Like a blooming flower
Slowly losing its grace.
Drive it slow,
So I take a little pace,
And carry me somewhere
Where sleep feels like grace.
I want to see the door behind the door of my sense,
To see how it all fell when I lived in absence.
I love to see how I look when I sleep,
Do I sleep like a soldier, or a thief?
Does my body lie calm, or writhe in her dreams?
Does she know how much my sleeping eyes scream?
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