song of sleep

[betteroffbad]

do you dream of getting a good nights sleep
does sleep wiggle from your grasp like a frantic eel

into the tepid shadow of the ocean where the eel
and others moving shadows swim and seek

they seek the dreams you fear and cannot enter
the soft elusive dreams you cannot reach

what colors does the sky turn when you reach
with sky-abraded hands into the night

i dream of sleeping every single night
in eely darkness slippery and deep