BETWEEN ASLEEP AND AWAKE

Memories walk daintily on enticing feet 
Coaxing me to slip away into their song 
I lie suspended in the flower strewn meadows

Floating on ecstatic breaths where I belong 

They wash over me like summer showers 
Releasing the musky spice of the earth 
Like the happily tumbling infant brook 
Bubbling and gurgling and laughing in mirth 

I feel their caress like the gentlest breeze
Ruffling its fingers through my flowing hair 
Cocooning me in their heady jasmine bouquets 
Dancing me away to their midnight lair 

Cherished moments spent in the lap of the past 
Rock me gently into slumbering bliss 
Serenely I descend into the land of dreams
Secure in the embrace of my memories' kiss 

MS