Nightly Routine

• Poonam Nair, Grade 9, Sydenham-Hillside Primary School
• Poetry
• 2011

Excellence Award in the 'Step Write Up 2011' competition

12.30am
Let me count a hundred sheep
be polite and don't start to speak
It interrupts my longing beauty sleep
unless awake, so tired and weak.

4.00am
Let me dream of art and writing
where time is cruel as color ends
as I am blind and have no sighting
but in a dream one’s eyesight mends

6.00am
Let me lie in peace at rest
while time seeps the sunlight wings
to laze in bed is simply best
for school is what early an early hour brings

Let me do, all of the three
once again
tomorrow please