Laying awake my body floats It’s spinning and twirling out of control It quickly speeds up and then it slows As a figure appears in my room “Come with me, my friend Adventure is what you need” I take the girl’ s hand and she pulls me from my trance Everything becomes bright My walls turn into a meadow, and my floor into luscious grass My ceiling melts into a sky with fluffy clouds and a yellow sun The stranger and I run through the flowers and fight beasts of different kinds Tall, short, black and red But every journey has its end, and ours is coming to a close I must return home before my mother finds me gone I am brought back to my room and left alone And I dream a wonderful dream, yet without the friend I met that night I don’t know how, what happened, or why the light stayed But the girl saved me from the evil inside my brain
This is a poem I submitted for a Just Write competition last Saturday.