Goodnight

Goodnight, I suppose, and off to bed,

But you’re off running through my head.

How cruel to enthrall me so,

Then, “Time to sleep now; off  you go!”

Here’s a thought, “It’s quite alright

For you and I to part.  Goodnight!”

Surely a thought that one could find--

In any place that’s not my mind!

We’re playing tag, and I’ve been caught,

“Look over there!  A novel thought!”

Then, ha! Just as my mind is turned,

You’re gone. It’s dark. I’ve never learned.

But what’s to learn, and what to do?

Each rising sun is setting, too.

Time says, “No one understands,”

Turns my face with gentle hands,

“Let me help you. Look away,

Tomorrow really is a day.”

I close my eyes reluctantly--

Closing on the you I see.

For life is going! Forward ho!

So come along, for here we go!

I’ll wink, and you--with both our eyes;

We’ll take the morning by surprise.