Blessing for Sleep (Poem)
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Blessing for Sleep
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| When sleep falls, May it be the deep sleep That comes after a Journey since dawn through wild places Home to the little wooden house seen lit Through a window from afar. Warmed before the log fire In the grate Whisky and chocolate in your veins, Scented in woodsmoke Mud heavy boots off, Socks off, Toes wriggling in delight before the crackle of wood and The toasty lick and welcome of red flame And its golden heart Short sleepy trudge upstairs On old oak smooth and Shiny with generations of step Down soft bed Of white clean sheets The gentle press Of lovingly patterned quilt And crunch cool pillows On your cheek The steady sound of heavy rain, That drums On roof and window Subsides through the night hours Into the muffled, Soft embrace of deep snow Across the wild. |
