Making Friends with Sleep

Lets start with some home truths about sleep
Firstly, sleep loves you very much
Sleep wants to embrace you
Sleep will not stop
Until it has subsumed you

Sleep wants to take you on a dream
On a journey far far away from your thoughts
There is nothing in the world sleep loves more
Than to share with you
The mysterious depths of your rich unconscious

But sleep can sometimes fall out of favour
With all the tossing and turning
With the jealousy and yearning
It can be fickle and fragile
And even unkind

Sometimes you can get so preoccupied with sleep
That when it comes time to be with it
You can become consumed by fear
Or anger
Or worse – you just avoid it altogether!

Try to be kind to sleep
Its not perfect
So make friends with it
And where you can
Do the right thing

Sleep is patiently waiting
Longing to be with you
There is no need for dread or fear
With a preparation that’s tight
And with an approach that’s right
Its goodnight