one step forward,

 

my feet glide out in front of me,

rubber soles padding on the grey concrete,

pink laces securing my shoes to my feet,

​

forward with a scuff mark on the ground,

 

I am ready for my journey,

I am ready to find

the stuff of dreams,

​

grounded as I look ahead,

 

My destination is unknown to me

but yet it's been studied,

charted,

and mapped,

​

I am ahead of where I was last night, and the night before,

​

silently,

​

before me, I still know not what lies, but the truth I am out to find,

​

during those

daylight hours spent

dancing in rays of

sun

preparing with patience for the night

to

come,

​

finding what's lost in this land of mind,

 

to finally ascend alone

as

one,

​

Mind of time, I see so clearly what is right, but-

​

I see it now,

my path ahead

I’m running now,

but my feet are lead,

​

but, I'm right back where I was before, again...

​

my mind

a fish

has grabbed the bait and

like so many other nights

laying in bed

I am brought to the surface,

forced to wake,

​

Again, I've left too soon,

​

before achieving the dream

I make

​

Soon I'll return after a day of awake,

​

I wait as I 

fall

awake.

​

awake.