When Night Falls

Under the twilight of tiny sun drops, a glisten, in the cool of a summers nightfall

I camp out, in the country wilderness, between massive northern pine, and giant pin oak trees

I can see in the dark, and I listen, awaiting the sage brown mouse, to scurry by the wide of my eyes

The yellow moon, like the highest watt light bulb, a glow, shadowing the images, of etched shaped leaves

When night falls, I sit here, awake, yet dreaming, wishing, upon a falling gold dust star

The feathers I wear, like a coat jacket, a grannyshaw, comforting my body, warming my pounding heart

Though I know, I am not alone, as I hear the racoons climbing, the tops of the crackling corn husk crops

I see the fireflies, last flicker of light, as they say goodnight, they bed in the mass of Kentucky grass of blue

I may be a winged creature of habit, a predator, to some, the innocent wild, though I must survive too

Some say, I have wisdom, that with age, of breed, or that, of surviving hardship experiences

Sometimes, I just pretend, no longer, just a fowl, old great horned owl, perched on this bent branch

But swimming, deep in the greenest of sea, enchanted by the love, of the whales, and tales of the lost captain's ghost ship

Glowing in the beauty of sunshine, as I bathe, upon the rugged, bolder rocks, envied, like a portrait oil painting

Wearing nothing, but, lacey oyster shell pearls, around my neck, silver, gold, scales of diamonds, to dress, upon my gown of flesh

When night falls, I dream of being a beautil, irredesent mermaid, with each breath, swimming the depths of time

Searching for love, oh, so sweet, as I grow older, not necessarily wiser, my life changes, I find myself astray

As the sun drops in the midnight onyx, of the sky, passing in the shadows moon, fade away

Night falls, as I am a dreamer, the fountain of youth, as the world turns, my head spins, in all directions

Inspired by all possibilities, where the darkness, turns to brightness, not ending in the night, but, beginng the challenges, the promise, of a brighter life on the way