sleep sustains my soul.
but my eyes are opened wide under eyelids shut closed,
searching for an answer to life
and love
in the darkness and the cold,
wrapped up in cotton sheets and tender skin and and a thin sliver of gold,
while a silken layer of sleep,
engulfs my soul.

I traverse the city of dreams,
to find the path to ease,
all pain and sorrow
of the scars sustained
during the day's quest for love,
a battle, a war between pious silver doves,
where the words slash hard,
the kisses dagger fast,
the caresses wound too,

because love is a war between hearts
and this war must end before it starts.
So let me escape,
dear Sleep, take me away!