Daydreams In The Night

DAYDREAMS IN THE NIGHT

BY: JIM WCHIMES

Now we're living in a poem

Full of romance and despair

As the final breath of candlelight

Throws shadows on your hair

Well you really should be sleeping

It's not long till morning light

But you lie awake beside me

Spinning daydreams in the night

There's a mountain here before me

That I'm not afraid to scale

I'm just waiting for the weather

To allow me on the trail

I've got rainbows in my pockets

And a fire in my eyes

Come and meet me here tomorrow

I can fix your lonely sigh

There are wishes that we pray for

When we're lying here awake

And we're working out the details

For some help for goodness sake

But no matter what the outcome

Things just seem to work out right

For there's magic in the shadows

Of your daydreams in the night

You ever have those nights?  The ones where you try to go to sleep but every thought rolls around your mind whispering.  Those nights when the past haunts you, the present hurts you and the future scares you.  sometimes I wonder if those nights are key moments in our lives.  That the wishes we dream of just before we fall asleep are our true hearts desires.  As a writer I often try to put to words the feelings associated with those near slumber daydreams but have never been able to do it as eloquently as the poet above did.