Sickly Sleep

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Winnowed into my night a wraith of the morrow

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Winnowed into my night a wraith of the morrow.

Not seldom in habit it came to be a bedfellow.

Faithful beauty sleep to the eye, deathblow at nadir.

O how it creeps into my doorless sleep, night raider.

Like death angel against my lips, kissing me pale.

Lips telling the eye of my mind a ghastly tale.

Vale wherein loved ones meet their dire straits.

"Ne'er" said I when asked to bedanger their fates.

Waken I covet to orphan this morrow betimes.

But if I am today how will I time tomorrow never?

And how shall life ever race the death ahead?

Between today and tomorrow lies a lie, it lies in my head.

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