Never a night so long,

Lashed here, to Homer’s Galley

 

And knowing, sleep’s music, so wrong

Would undoubtedly drown me

Wholly, completely, sweetly.

 

Pillowed Siren, Scylla and Charybdis

I have closed my ears thus far

 

But I nod and your voice softly whispers

“Come away, come away. Sleep is yours.”

 

I must not, for a moment, til dawn.

Never a night so long!

 

Pillowed Siren, Scylla, Charybdis

have won and I am no more.

To the waves of my sheets, I succumb.

 

Surrender–surrender complete,

Has never felt so sweet.