Your Own Dreams

So, do you turn away, back into the night
like you used to, all those years ago?
Diving deep into your own dreams

to swim across the night time seas
in search of that one far-off land,
that one magical kingdom

where you can walk the streets
like the one true princess you know
one day you will rightly be.

Standing still at the busy centre
as exotic bazaars bustle around you
and urchins plead for your desires

and how they can be satisfied.
While you stare up, unheeding,
at the high white-walled palace

where solemn guards patrol
and even the songbirds are hushed.
Because, deep within a cool bedchamber

the young and beautiful princess lies
sleeping the hot afternoon away
dreaming of a strange misty country

where a woman, just like her,
swims across the seas of night time
to dive deep into her own dreams.