Last Favour

Sleep,
my most trusted childhood friend,
you have looked after me
ever since my first ever breath,
mentor and healer,
you have raised me with such love and care,
I've come to learn that you are
subtlety preparing me,
dose by little dose,
for that certain ultimate moment,
that with such cunning and skill
I have been avoiding so far,
the time I must meet with your brother,
Death.