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.
