Tonight to myself
I'll say:
let reason be asleep
let thinking go away-

no longer shall I be caged
within any boundary
words trouble me with their insistence
testing me with their strange vocabulary-

I long for rest and sleep
my heart and soul are weary
the load of past experience oppresses
I'm struggling to be free--

shadows lurk in the night
they seem to be watching me
the winds that drift  by are whispering:
we know your sad story.