Sleep tight, and keep sweet.

Whatever you do,

keep sweet.

 

No one who believes you

is standing in your corner.

No one who disbelieves you

is standing in your corner.

 

You must be as a thief in the night –

lie quiet in speech and in deed.

Also be beautiful, sweet,

agreeable, plastic.

 

Let those who believe

try to crush

that which lies within –

the indomitable.

 

Once those who believe

once those who crush

believe in their own deeds

let your sweetness flood them

like a raging, waking, paralyzing dream.

 

Because unlike Mother,

no one is ever

coming to save you.

You must do it.

 

Sleep tight, and keep sweet.

 

~Marlies Vonn