Sleep

Welcome my friend.    
Tonight, time lingered.
 Often you arrive without notice.
Always welcome, never shunned.
A relief from the pain, and the thoughts.
Mostly blackness, memories lost.
You are best when you leave emptiness behind,
nothing to invade the still of the dark.
Dreams are anxious, endless wanderings in a dead city.
Seeking but never finding.
Awake in a grey fog.
As the journey ends,
take me with you in the still of the morning.
Let me stay with you,
Forever.