Day Dreams

What are daydreams ~  

Simply insubstantial things  
Memory and imagination mingled  
That hope might find her place  
Like prayers of child-like faith  
Suspended  
In innocent sophistication  
 
For my heart still hopes for such  
Dreams as you inspire  
And dares believe  
Such insubstantial things  
Have the weight to shape my world  
 
What was it about you which first gave me pause  
About the direction of my tomorrows?  
Like a strand of hair that lifts and floats  
On gentle breeze  
across your face  
 
~ Sweet chance ~  
 
And your whole aspect changed  
And I saw you anew  
And in you  
The missing part of me  
 
Like the first leaf’s fall  
On still autumn pond  
Whose surface trembles beneath the touch  
A feeling that ripples towards the farthest shores  
A hushed whisper  
That rejoices.  
 
For I’m a man of splashing brooks  
The songs of birds  
And sun dappled shady groves  
And in thoughts of you  
Your voice’s soft as these  
And silvered as the dew  
 
Most would laugh to hear me speak this way  
Though I speak of things I love  
And so too my dreams so sweetly seem  
To speak of these in you  
For in my heart  
Your ever near  
Though I would have you nearer.  
 
Could sunrise diamonds cast  
On clear mountain lake  
Match the sparkle of your eyes?  
 
Or sunset glow to summers day  
Speak the warmth of rose  
Upon your lips?  
 
Or to feel you wet and yielding  
Entwined in my embrace
‘Neath  
Rainbow misted waterfall  
In solitary place…  
 
Such beauty as this I’d share with you
If you’d share yours with me  
…on moonlit night  
Soft as the scent of southern pine  
And fragrant honeysuckle  
 
And love you as slow as sweet southern drawl  
Or ever velvet night is long  
Steady as the rhythm of summer shower  
Yet fierce in sweet surrender  
 
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There’s beauty in a split rail fence  
'Fore the sun burns away the fog of morning  
And there’s the beauty of one such as I  
Tho’ it’s not as the world sees beauty  
 
So I seek the peace of solitudes  
And mountain views  
And in imaginings  
Always you  
 
Though I’ll never have you  
That I might have or hold,  
Know –  
You’ve never been held so dearly  
As in dreams my arms enfold.  
 
And whatever distance stands between  
Your heart and mine this day  
Stands  
In your heart alone  
For mine only longs to draw you nearer  
 
Lost in time  
Lost in you  
Lost in a moment of forever  
Lost in every dream my heart would know  
 
But it’s just my imagination…  
 
..again