The Sleep Thief

Sleep is a thief With a coat of luring rainbow colours To entrance you to his lair Inside the lining, the coat is the blackest of blacks Enough to swallow hopes and dreams Oh yes, he gives dreams too But they are the dreams of sleep False and alluring Sleep's trick, to keep you to himself He steals dreams of life that Are so clear at the days end At dawn, like the stars, they have disappeared And who has taken them? It was sleep. Untrustworthy sleep I will never rest again.