Love song to sleep

Its early
or late
depending,
I guess.

Beautiful Baby has drifted back to sleep
lulled gently by the sweet beginnings of a bird's song.
My bed looks gorgeous and I
dive hungrily into your embrace.

'Hey chirpy,' I think as my eyelids close,
'the sun's not quite to the horizon'
'check your internal clock please.'

but its too late, woodstock's asshole cousin
has just awakened our snoopy.

The tell tale claws trick-trock upon the hardwood.
every morning's answer to nature's call.

But on this morning,
for some reason,
she goes to the kids room before I can get to the stairs.
And she licks the first perfect angelic face she sees.

and its over.

Everyone is awake.
The day has begun.
I punch my dog in the face
and immediately start to cry when I see her fear.

I desperately needed you tonight.

Oh Sleep,
Oh one and true
dear
sweet
lover

In my arrogant youth I cried
'I don't need you!'
'I'll love you when I die!'
but you didn't tell me that our easy love affair
was short-lived.

No one told me that my entire adulthood
was designed with the sole purpose
of keeping us apart.

First come the tiny soldiers who
before they even show their face they fight you away.
Bladder stomping rib breaking little bastards
residing in swollen bellies.

They are born with a full arsenal
to continue their mission.
Their weapons are shrill shrieks of gas and hunger and
just because... deal with it.

Tiny soldiers become skilled snipers.
Their battle wages on through
years of fevers, bedwetting, nightmares, vomit and
just not being sleepy... deal with it.

Their actions and the spiraling what-ifs
keep you away
for days at a time.

And when it is no longer their battle to fight.
It is our very own traitorous bodies
that pick up their dropped swords.

Stress, insomnia
shrunken bladder and restless leg syndrome.
WHY SLEEP WHY??
Why did God make me unable to live without you
then design every part of my life
to keep you away?

Oh sleep.
You gentle caress, you comatose silence, you big black beautiful escape.

Without you I am a raging, giggling, crying whack-tard.
I need you.  I love you.  I miss you.

Take my dogs.
Take my husband.
Take my children.

And please don't forget me.
Take me.
Hold me.
and for at least 6 hours,
Keep me.