Escapist: Two poems

I have been hesitant to post these because of their escapist content... but now the time has come...

Dreamer

In a distant universe

In a distant galaxy

Around a distant star

On a distant planet
In a distant house

With a distant mind

Someone feels the same as me.

Dreamscape                                                                                          

Sometimes

When the sun goes down,

But does not take with it the weight of daily life,

I find my eyes looking up

To the lights that share their wisdom with my troubled mind.

Most days

My mind finds times when it acquiesces to the struggle

Of the pressures that the world thrusts upon it,

But still it finds refuge in the stars

That shelter from the ever-shifting flow

Of the illusions that press on me to change.

Every night

When my eyes travel the infinity above my head,

I am freed from careless thoughts that drift aimlessly in my mind

The openness of space greets me with its silent embrace.

Send me adrift around the stars,

Past the endless nebulas, planets and their suns!

Orbit me around the galaxies that stand indifferent to our human time:

A blink of an eye that’s quickly forgotten in the infinite.

Up there I find myself as the calm that permeates the emptiness

As I feel all those careless boundaries peel away…