Image Poem

Now i lay me down to Sleep - Kayla Schwartz

My dear bed, let me be your canvas


let your blankets paint me a fresh coat


let your pillows frame me 


let your headboard mount me safely upon the wall


let me freeze and lay motionless


Still for all to enjoy


let the light fall in and reflect me


Dear bed let me be luminous in peaceful slumber

my body a hollow log ready to be filled


Bring a crowd to your bedside


let them congregate, let them whisper their thoughts


allow their dreams to become my dreams

tingling through my fingertips as I reach for that secret desire or

raising the hairs on my neck with the overwhelming fear


and then let me be

 give me my solitude, drape me with a white sheet

 Because my dear bed 
there is nothing more for them to see