<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sleep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you give yourself to me utterly,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not as a fugitive, blindly or bitterly, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as a child might, with no other wish?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, utterly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I shall bear you down my estuary,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Carry you and ferry you to burial mysteriously,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take you and receive you,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consume you, engulf you,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the huge cave, my belly, lave you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With huger waves continually.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you shall cling and clamber there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And slumber there, in that dumb chamber,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beat with my blood's beat, hear my heart move</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blindly in bones that ride above you,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delve in my flesh, dissolved and bedded,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through viewless valves embodied so –</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till daylight, the expulsion and awakening,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The riving and the driving forth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life with remorseless forceps beckoning –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pangs and betrayal of harsh birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Slessor">Kenneth Slessor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429755" data-title="Sleep de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="Do you give yourself to me utterly, Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh Not as a fugitive, blindly or bitterly, But as a child might, with no other wish? Yes, utterly. Then I shall bear you down my estuary, Carry you and ferry you to bur..."></div> </div> </div>

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