Sleep

Sleep, my sister, my lover, my friend

sleep in the velvet darkness

respite from pain

respite from worry

float in that whisper of

uterine safety

we try so hard to get back to.

Sleep, my sister, my lover, my friend

lying here separate

complete in your

self

mind I can never enter

body which I come

into and out of

soul which opens

embraces my own.

Sleep my sister, my lover, my friend

sleep warm

in the curve of my love.