Slumber Tale

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Tangerine Dream “Near Dark”

As I lay me down to sleep
I give with faith my soul to keep
This gift unique
For it exceeds the ebbs and flows of ocean deep
Fetching in unbroken sweep
Of right and left in motion tween
In kind, no more a noble deed
Than roaming view to open seas

All of me
No less addressed
Of North and South
Of East and West
Encompassing blind faith abreast of blessed recollection
Togetherly in every direction
This woven piece of chosen theme
Remembered from a hopeful dream
No less foreseen than rendered premonition
Lent indeed permission to commission all to cause
In good health, a wealth of imperfections dressed as flaws
Each sworn warm affection by the flame of volumetric source
Each expressive not of nauseous caution or remorse
All of me
No less addressed
Of fraught undress divorced

As I lay me down to sleep
I give with faith my soul to keep
And should I die before I wake
Then mine is thine enthroned to take
There was a time I’d lie awake
In pain of my misgivings
There was a life
Howbeit, disinclined was I to living
There was a voice inside my head
Suggesting I should give in
Now, as I lay me down to sleep
I fall beneath the veil regaled of willing

In complete darkness
My widened eyes acclimatized
The light reprised within as I then ventured forth in motion tween
In kind, no more a noble deed
Than roaming shade illuminated
Shadows nowise ruminating fates their way inclined
Not a soul I left behind
As every glow I wove in twine
Reposed in braid
Of toasted brave
Levitated open grave
Melted ice of frozen frame
And overcame my dying day

Ventured of undying faith
Reprised my underlying aim
To keep the souls in high intake
Hold each within admiring gaze
Providing light
Applying shade
Both day and night
In timeless braid
And, as I lay me down to sleep
Devising ways embraced incline to rise
Finally, in kind
I close my eyes