ORPHANED INSOMNIAC


All are relaxing in their beds,
Whether of hay or silk threads,
All have drunk the sherbet of sleep,
In the breast of night, many dreams creep,

In the warmth of their mother’s love,
All the youth are asleep by now,
If I had mother and her lullaby,
Of me, sleep mustn’t have been so shy,

O God, with sleep kindly bless my nights,
So I may too enjoy morns bright,
Though the stars and moon are faraway,
I have their company, anyway,

All my wants for solitude have gone,
As I grudgingly wait for the dawn.

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