dreaming @ 12:58 am

Take me away.
To far-off castles and fortresses
Of high-rise walls and open lawns.
I dream of what's it like
To just run free
And to know there's someone out there
Watching me
Like I'm the only one moving
Amidst the swaying irises.

I run crazily,
Shouting at the top of my lungs
How it feels good to be alive
And be alive for one person and one person only.

I wonder if you smile at the thought of me.
Like there's a hidden message
Why we're like this.
Hungry for life
And its complications
Yet we remain an unsolved mystery;
And the deepest desire
To finish each other's sentences
Doesn't bother us at all.

The sunlight burns the cattails.
Even drying the lakeside.
But I raise my wondering eyes
As if I were his friend and he was mine.
I wanna touch it,
And hold it,
And keep it for myself.
This time I want to be selfish
To own the sunlight
And its promise of a new day.
Then at least I wouldn't have to worry
About sleeping 8 hours
Or even half of my lifetime.
For I possess the light
And it is bound to me
Chained to all that is warm and fuzzy.
Exactly how I feel when I see you smile.

Glistening in the moondrops of the early morn
I shiver at the sight of the vastness of the skies
How infinitely small I am
Compared to the constellation Orion.
You say to me I am the only star
That lingers in your heaven
A moving body that circles and circles your every purpose.
You gave it a name.
A name that is familiar
A name that only you call me.
Now you own the star.
I own the sun.
Who owns the galaxy?

Take me away.
Where there's nothing wrong
With wanting something that's never going to be yours.
Where there's equal happiness
At the sight of a colorful horizon and an autumn maple leaf.
Where there's endless summer and rain at the same time.
Where there's an assurance
That we are loved without holding back
That we are held without restriction.
Where there's a life
That isn't too easy that we know not how to swear
Nor too difficult that we know not how to laugh.
Where there's only our names
Written on the sand.

Take me away with you.
Until we grant the solemn promise
Made between heaven and hell
That this is meant to be.

Your eyes have made all things alive.

Where there's you,
I am home.