I feel so naked
Exposed
And alone
Like in the dream
Where you’re at school
Or at work
Without any clothes on
And you’re the only one
And you can’t figure out
Just how you got to be there
Without any clothes
I feel so naked
Exposed
And alone
Like in the dream
Where you’re at school
Or at work
Without any clothes on
And you’re the only one
And you can’t figure out
Just how you got to be there
Without any clothes
They power dreams
Of boyhood flight
To other worlds
Beyond the stars
The will to live
Or the will to not die
Courage or fear
(I’m unsure which)
Drives them to the beach
Lungs filling with salt water
Muscles spent
Energy exhausted
With the dreams
I only allow myself
At night
Curled safely
In my own bed
I crouch down
Inch forward
Lie flat
Wiggle further
And as I near the very edge
A chalk covered hand
Comes over the top
Taking a firm grip
I would never fail
For fear of trying
I would fail
For reaching further
Than I could grasp
Most drawn to center
Where all of us are one
But many lost in darkness
To drift beyond the crest
As darkness falls
Lofty boughs become
Gnarled trunk’s
Twisted branches, grasping
And so its stories tell us
A world all out-of-kilter
At war, and in poverty
Has Happy Endings