Sleep

Sleep is not something you worry about;

Sleep is just something you do.

Don't make resolutions to figure it out,

But love it like children and sleep will come true.

We never go to sleep to dream;

We go to sleep to go to sleep.

Unusual as it may seem,

We never spend our time counting sheep.

A little confidence does the trick

When we climb into our beds,

Instead of filling our heads

With a lot of animals and arithmetic.

We love the way we love to go to sleep;

To sink into a slumber that is always pretty deep,

To go sailing off to a star,

To be buried in a field of hay,

To stop remembering who we are

When we're finished with our prayers and our play,

After we have given you a goodnight kiss

And closed our eyes like this:

It's an awful lot of fun,

And it's restful too;

Do you see how it's done?

Do you?