places in my dreams

 
There are places i have been in my dreams
places where i return many times
to the streets of memory which
my mind created for my dreams
where new adventure awaits and old
familiar foes hide in dark doorways
along alleyways where bright lit taverns
invite with their intoxication of welcome
upon pretty faces who would then
accompany me across those fields
of my imagined past and out
along country lanes of wild abandon
all in my dreams, my other life
when my body is at slumber and my heart
plays wonderous games with the night
caught for a few moments on my waking breath
but lost to the light of dawn's yawning zest