Fireflies

fireflies flashing in the night
air so still it seems I might
feel a breeze as they fly by-
Moon just rising in the sky

imagining I have the power
to float away in this hour
to rise on up into the air
by thinking, moving anywhere

over the water, over the ground
hovering without a sound
in desolate serenity
over the Arctic's frozen sea

North Pole, South Pole, in the embrace
of curtains of light from outer space
riding a beam as it bounces away
off to the moon for a short stay

then into the darkness where nothing reflects -
invisible light which no one expects
infra and ultra while I'm in between
riding in an invisible beam

imagining I have the power
to come and go whatever the hour
while feeling a breeze from twinkling light
of fireflies flashing in the night...