Eight-line Poems 2

Sleep

Sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep
in hope of slumbers long and deep
and if my dreams on me should creep
their price would always be too cheap
but if the nightmares too should seep
with ominous sound and future’s beep
I ask your hand my safety keep
until my eyes on dawn doth peep.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aaaaaaaa
For Express It In Eight, 04.08.25
Prompt: Use these words in your poem - deep, seep, peep.