When night takes my mind

I dream a thousand dreams

And live a thousand lives

And when I wake

For a moment, sadness takes me

That for now I live only one

A distant world comes to mind

Teeming with life and love

And as it gains form

The one around dissipates

Along with all its cruelty

For a time

Music rings in my ears
Unheard in many days and nights
Yet ever-present in my mind
An echoing symphony
All my own

My heart thrums
Wondering
Wandering in distant times and places

My ears prick
At sounds
Of harmonies in spacetime

And my mind twists
And turns
Trying to make sense of it all

No, it’s not the 19th. But I forgot to write a poem yesterday, which means today you get two! ~AC

Morning’s light comes
O’er treetops
Shining rays through the boughs
As Night gives way to triumphant Day

As the Sun and the Stars
Dance
And Earth in her wonder smiles upon
The heavens

As life awakens
And Fate circles the seas
And the cycle continues
Daybreak comes

Though hearts grow cool
Though walls grow thick
And though calluses grow all round
Let not life’s troubles harden you
Allow feeling
Allow truth
Allow light

A heavy heart is better
Than an empty one

Often do I dream
Of distant places
Never seen

Often do I dream
Of other voices
Never heard

Often do I dream
Of other lives
Lived

As the sun crosses the sky
And the blossoms wilt
And the seasons change
The universe exhorts:

Be unquiet
Unbound
Unfettered

Dance with Fate
She is your partner

Lift your feet from the ground
And demand
Life
Unshackled