To Sleep A Little More Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

There is an Orphic element in the closing lines with the animated stones, But the speaker is not an Orpheus, he is a witness. It would appear he was rudely yanked out of sleep with its comforting unconsciousness and now he is fully awake to the world.SLEEPING IN THE VERY LAP OF NIGHT is the ideal state. No troubles intrude, even the ghost go howling by without disturbing the sleeper.But in this poem he is awake and witnessing the world as it unfolds.