AS YOU SLEEP 
Slumber gentle princess 
Serenely in your bed.
Fashion new worlds
Inside your head.
Leave this world's concerns 
To those still awake;
Cloak yourself in visions
You alone partake.
Excuse me as I savor
Each breath you take,
Floating on the cloud
Of beauty you create.
Allow me just one kiss
Upon your downy cheek
Before I too surrender
To my own blissful sleep.
Come tomorrow morning
I will see you again my sweet
And ask you of your sojourn
In the shadows deep.
Till then "Good Night" to you
In your worry-free release;
Watching you there I know
There truly can be peace...
Copyright © 1990 Raymond C. Sison. All rights reserved.
Some notes from the author: I consider this poem one of the turning points of my writing. It is certainly one of my best-received works. I like to think that people enjoy staying for a while in the little ideal world it
creates; I certainly do...