Emily Winters                                                                                                 

“Dream Chaser”

Lone car

Deserted road

Headlights carving through darkness

Lone silos sentinel shadows

Green fields turn to glass,

Mirroring a flat-line sea.

Fluorescent lines matching the pulse of the world,

Soothing rhythm of the road

That puts the kids to sleep.

Joy and midnight weariness

Weighing down the eyes

Satisfied smiles across the divide

Between the seats, between minds.

Glow to disrupt

The gentle silence of the night

Hum that speckles the dashboard

With light.

Projectile wandering

Wading through the ebony

Seeking out those daydreams

The long forsaken adolescent fantasies

Before the sand is decayed,

Before the Dream is just a dream

And the Day just a day.