BELIEVE

 

Forgotten memories creep like dancing moonbeams on pillows

With night noises that sing lullabies.

The world once was quiet at 2 AM.

Is it still so in the country while the city lights blaze as bright as noon?

Can the birds go to sleep? Do night flowers bloom?

Do the monsters come out from under our beds once we are grown?

And feed on the grandstand of innocent laughter, And the notion of happily ever after?

The wind breathes a fleeting childhood smile …

For just a blink the cow grazes in the grass

As the porch swing squeaks and the apples fall,

Naive times knowing nothing at all.

Can a day dream ever come true planted in the soil of time?

Nurture with love as warm as the sun

Wash it clean until it shines

Wake it up so it can be done.