Come, Let Us Sleep And Dream Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Let us sleep and dream
Let us pluck out the stars
From heaven and plant them
in the ocean of mermaids.

Let us explore the castle
of fairies and paint the
stories of their flights
in long and lonely nights.

Let us sleep and dream
Let us sleep and dream
when days leave us scars
that let us cry and scream.

Come, let us sleep and dream
knowing that in our sleep
there we find mermaids
and fairies, tending our scars
by the magic of their sweet voice
and their mystic loving hands.