Last Sweet Moments

In the last sweet moments of a childhood sleep

I gazed briefly on what my dreams could keep

Then I wished with a childlike hope

To dream alone and never wake up

Then to run an unafraid approach

The enchanting day parade

There in order of ones and threes

Each one young and each one

Dressed quite as they pleased

In the circus of a passing rhyme

Found my eyes and read my mind

Saying come if your heartfelt wishes will

And running away from school

I held close to sleep

Holding close to dream

Till I'd almost joined what I'd seen

Then I awoke and saw the room

Brought my mind back from the start

Oh how far I thought from where I was

In the last sweet moments of a childhood sleep

I gazed briefly on what my dreams

Could let me keep