I'm going to be. Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of Sleep and Relax ASMR. I thought that today we do another round of bedtime poems seems to be a fan favorite.

Let me go into this as always by saying I'm just taking poems online giving

credit to the authors at least what you know the authors, at least what, you know, the authors, you know, based on the information of the authors online.

I apologize if I get anything wrong and I also apologize if you've heard one or two of these before.

Again, I don't do it very systematically.

I just get a couple that I'm fairly confident I haven't read before

and give it a try but if I'm making mistakes or if I'm

reading the same poem once or twice from previous volumes of

editions of bedtime poems.

Just let me know, and I'll make sure not to do those anymore. So the first one is all you who sleep tonight by Vichram Seth and I read all you who sleep tonight far from the ones you love no hand left or right, an emptiness above.

Know that you aren't alone, the whole world shares your tears,

some for two heights or one, and some for all their ears. The next one is called variation on the word sleep by Margaret Atwood.

I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen.

I would like to watch you sleeping. I would like to sleep with you to

enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head and walk with you through that loosened wavering forest of blue-green leaves with its watery

sun and three moons towards a cave where you must descend toward your worst fear.

I would like to give you the silver branch, the small white flower, the one word that

will protect you from the grief at the center of your dream, from the grief at the center of your dream.

From the grief at the center, I would like to follow you up the long stairway again

and become the boat that would roll you back carefully.

A flame and two-cubbed hands to where your body lies beside me.

And as you enter, and as you enter it as easily as breathing in, I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like

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