If For A Little While

My head lies for rest, laden with doom

an outlook on life unhealthy and dark.

With the rise of the morning sun,

something clicks, something shifts.

Chasing away my demons, if for a little while,

replacing them with warm memories, hopes, and dreams.

I can see my aspirations and reasons to fight in the smile of a weak sun.

Life suddenly isn't so bleak, happiness is abundant and fruitful,

I can feel my feet ascending the stairs to paradise and serenity,

even if this solace is ephemeral, I tell myself to enjoy it,

even if just for a little while.

The treetops glisten with the shining droplets of stars

that looked so dead, so faraway last night when I said farewell.

The house that creaked with horrors and nightmares under the black

is now filled with a light, a promising glow that leaves the ghosts of the night speechless.

The morning grows old and the sun nears its throne in the sky

just as my optimism and light-hearted delusions begin to slip away.

 Life seems just as it always seems

and the birds wait again till daybreak to grace the world with their song.