This Poem was Submitted By: R. Lee Buckley On Date: 2002-04-03 03:18:12 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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"To Sleep..."

to sleep until all turmoil's gone... past night - past day - past endless dawn - until even God can't recall why He made me... the least of all. to sleep until there's nothingness... no pain - no grief - no sore regrets - which cause such anguish to the soul. this i would choose... ultimate goal. but then a voice speaks in the dark... "You can't!" - "You won't!" - "You have the spark!" and breaks away the deadly black which steals my soul... to bring me back. Once reason, lost, returns I see... the past - the now - the future me - I am amazed how close I came to losing all... with self to blame. For I asked God to let me "feel"... the pain - the grief - the senses reel - that others have, while here below, to better love... and truly "know"!

Copyright © April 2002 R. Lee Buckley


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