Midnight Daydream

My poetic description of an event that recently occurred. It's cheesy and pretentious but that's how I am.

Time slows down and comes to a halt

As it comes careening towards me,

Quickly gathering speed.

 

The night closes in and surrounds so tightly

While it expands and opens,

Making room for it all

 

This moment is fleeting, momentary

It cannot last longer than the span of a poem

Or even the length of a breath

 

Yet at the same time, it extends

And reaches past the bonds of reality

One moment becomes a lifetime

 

A lifetime that could never be explained

A moment that I could not talk about

Or dare to write down

 

The fear is what takes hold

The fear of sounding cliché,

Sounding inaccurate

 

The fear of the truth

And the fear of the inaccuracies

The fear of saying exactly what happened

 

Because it was never supposed to

It was an imagination,

A daydream in the middle of the night

 

A break from the norm

A crack in the ordinary

A defiance of the world

And the rules created by it

 

The world spun round

But no longer was the earth around the sun

It was I, spinning around you,

In an orbit around the car in which we sat

 

The seasons came and went

The years flew on

But beyond our little space,

There was nothing

Everything and nothing

All at once

In a collision of worlds and words,

No logic involved

 

A perfect moment

Created by so many tiny imperfections

An atmosphere of pure energy

Amidst a beautiful, calm wind

 

We laughed,

As we looked around

Our own private world

Slowly melting back into reality

 

The stars are relit

The moon is returned to the sky

We slam lightly to the ground

And scream out a sigh

 

Home again, home again

And no one to tell

Because it was only just us

Cast under the spell.