O Sleep, I pitifully beg,
And ask you to kindly hug,
Toward me step your leg,
My insomnia, you debug !
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Behave not adamantly,
Come to touch me gently,
I need your embrace urgently,
For my ideas to be Saintly !
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Please be not dispassionate,
Toward me, be affectionate,
If the delay shown is inordinate,
My body parts won't coordinate !
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The longer you stay,
The better for the day,
My brain has gone astray,
You can show the way !
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Powerful sleeping dosage,
Is sadly by me now in usage,
Get pasted kindly as postage,
On my brain for a glad voyage !
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Your blessings, don't deny,
You are ignoring me, why?
Be generous like the Sky,
I, on my bed, so sadly lie !
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My begging calls, don't ignore,
I want no fame to finely soar,
I simply wish to just snore,
You sleeping beauty, I adore !
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I will do bodily exercise,
All my ideas, let me revise,
If you silence me, it will be nice,
Prayer will be given as price !
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O Sleep, by being moderate,
Erase gloom from my mind-slate,
Come neither early nor too late,
Save me from tablets which sedate !
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A control of the World, God keeps,
it seems, He also, at times, sleeps,
That is why the devil often peeps,
My mind weeps as no sleep it reaps !
M V Venkataraman