- a thank you to every writer who's ever captured my imagination
breathing underwater is easy when you are dreaming,
and gravity has no pull when I'm flying above it all,
I'm running through walls, into familiar buildings
that swap form and function, location and purpose,
distances contract and expand forever,
and those I recognise instinctively
live with different faces
but awake, awake we can only fall, or drown
this world of gravity and oxygen,
same faces in same places and rules,
rules against improbability
so please write a story that's fantastic
so I can return to my dream and
we can swim by the moonlight without drowning
we can swim by the moonlight without drowning
and fly without falling,
a story of improbable happening
of secrets of the heart and thoughts unfurled,
with new friends and new foes
I'll read it overlooking the crashing foam,
from a mountain cliff
from a mountain cliff
until I'm ready to dive into the twinkling blue waters
and surface somewhere new