Sleep Poem by James Hart

Sleep

Can’t sleep
I n s o m n I a c
S o I c o u n t s h e e p
Or Meditate


Sleep comes
Deep sleep
Vivid dreams
Illuminating the past


Sleep is
A way of escape
A welcome rest
A window on eternity


Sleep means
Shutting down senses
No more seeing hearing
Tasting feeling or smelling


Soul sleep means
Partial death
Temporary death
Total resurrection


Signum crucis
Protection against
The unknown
Evils that assail



Sleep on, my soul
The end is nigh
Spring follows winter
As day follows night

In the immortal words
Of Julian of Norwich,
’For all shall be well
And all shall be well

And
All manner of thing
Shall be well’
Shall be well
Shall be well.



©2009
James Hart