Sleepwalk

Sleepwalk

Then the third     plague fell,

     fell upon     our people

     because we     would not

release Midas     from bondage.

Our children     slept well, well

before this plague. But then boys,

boys and girls awoke in neighbors'

homes, all     unaware, confused.

Days later, wives and husbands 

     began to awake     in cities

     on the coast.     Some awoke

in other     beds beside, beside 

strangers,     all     unaware,

confused.     And this     plague 

     lasted     only     forty years

     while     Midas     slept.

Then the fourth     plague fell,

     fell upon     our people

     because we     would not

release Midas     from bondage.

[mythopoeia]