Let Me Sleep (At Bedtime) Poem by Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle

My eyelids are flicking
Tired of all day vision
And my soul sedately sinking.
Let me sleep!
.
I have toiled towards my aim
Bearing truth and morality in mind.
Let haunting thoughts melt like flame
And at peace, let me sleep!
.
My supplication done and said
I banish all raging nightmares
That may wander about my bed.
Now, let me sleep!
.
And the moon to west relapses
While I, snoring in sonorous silence
And when the moon-time elapses,
Rekindle me, O heaven!
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