Sleepytime Tea

Flowers, grasses, petals and leaves
are good nepenthe for one who grieves.
Orange, black, yellow, rose:
These are the colors to conquer woes
(I suppose).
Chamomile cured Peter Rabbit
of his bad McGregor habit.
Flowers of passion, tilia too,
are an antidote for rue.
And lest the mixture seem to raw
add cap of skull and thorne of haw.
Boil water.
Let it steep.
Drink slow.
Drink deep.
Let go.
Benefits reap.
Lie down.
Go to sleep.