Poetry

Sleep

Sarah Welch

The air is thickThe leaky faucet in grandma’s bathtub is going drip, plop,drip, plopThere is a small glimpse of light coming from the crackin my doorMy bed feels so bigLike I would need one thousand me’s, five-foot me’sTo fill the bedThe air suddenly becomes thinnerThe faucet stops dripping for a secondAnd I simply fall asleep.

Sleep Sarah Welch
Sarah Welch, 11
Elgin, Illinois

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