You Shall Fall Asleep in My Arms


My love let’s steal away,
Leave this sterile room, their disinfected halls.
Unwind emotional swaddling
Wrapped about you by frowning folk
Populating your world;
They peer into the hourglass windows of your eyes
And watch in silence the sand’s last flow.

Let’s abscond,
Tear up an ancient script
And rewrite the last scene.
Reach in and hold your grains,
Then slip them through your fingers
At your rate.

Let’s reclaim
Your imagination, images, thoughts, life-
Soft, now, peace returns from exile.
Undress,slip off the garments of sorrow they gave you.
Step off the care pathway,
Let their world fall at your feet.
And one last time
You shall fall asleep in my arms.