Abandoning Childhood

On my bedside table, my childhood books lay

Stacked on top of each other, collecting weigh,

Filled with imaginary worlds that consumed

Me with knights, spaceships, fairies, allowed

me to explore Tattooine and Ha Long Bay

Monsters and beasts I had to slay

Four-headed dragons and bugs in the hay

My heroism in books now rested

On my bedside table.

I pick up one to again play

The roles of heroines that have every day

To remember magic books these created

Escape the reality that makes me wish I stayed

Young, not an adult dealing the tax papers that lay

On my bedside table.

Uncertainty

Do you ever find yourself

Staring into space,

Pondering perhaps

If you'll ever get to that place?

A place they tell you of tomorrow,

golden fruits, pretty birds,

all the things to mend your sorrow.

Does it exist, I wonder….

One day I will

reach this spoken point,

time will forever stay still

Sunset

Sunset

Just before night

A palette in the sky

A truly striking gold up high

Twilight

Stars Keep Us Apart

Time to time again I lay and ponder,

Of light-years separating you from me.

Looking out of my window I begin to wonder

How long will stars keep us apart as they flee

To many planets and moons, I have been,

Yet you keep drifting away.

Universe expands more than anyone's seen

We agreed to meet but have you gone astray?

When I'm stationed on one planet,

I know lights are leaving me behind

They take you but I can only look at the granite

"She is waiting, waiting" I keep in mind.

So long as I breathe I will continue

And ride asteroid belts to find you.