"Sleep"

by Brian G. Daigle (in the Herbertian mode)

Sleep the creatures respite, Angels’ ignorance.
Death’s shadow, the appetizer of resurrection’s banquet.
The body’s surrender to finitude in brief.
Horizontal vulnerability made full.
Man’s self-ode silenced once more.
Animal comfort that the Author speaketh still.
Infant’s domain the elder reclaims.
Ambition’s enemy toward acquisitions more, beyond our store.
Freedom’s wings from sensible things.
God’s envelope for dreams.