Sunrise before bed

Sunrise before bed
At nighttide she said,
Spell on the fate ahead,
Sunrise before bed
Pink ebbs in the head
Ere’t on reveries’d tread
Sunrise before bed
The dawn consumes the dread
Soothes the dead, settles the score
Sings you to sleep
Steals every terror, weep
From a now powerless core:
The dark

In the quiet orchard
In the gentle park
In the hospital room
Sunrise before bed
Threatens the gloom
Wicked hands ties
Sunrise before bed
Mirrors your luminous smile.

You close your radiant eyes
As if ready for sandman’s embrace.
Gently pushed by timid ease
Closure calms your face;
Erupting, the asters rise
As a legion, not as one:
Too splendid for a lone Sun
Glows, your heartshine lipworn
Sunrise before bed
Anew, fiery glory’s born.