Slumber Boat
There
is a full moon high in the star filled sky... The
thin clouds drift slowly across the moon's
face... The moon's glow penetrates the soft thin
clouds... Highlighting the edges as if a
flashlight behind lace... Laying on my bed roll, I
look high into the night sky and see a shooting
star zip across the darkness in an arc as if it
is following the most outer layer of the
earths's surface... I close my eyes and feel the
feathery touch of an angel's wing wraping around
me... Enclosing me in it's warmth... As protection
from the evil that is in this world... I feel the
cooling effect as a butterfly hovers just above
my face... The wind through the pines brings a
familiar scent gently to my nose... I hear the
whipperwill coo for his mate off in the
distance... I begin to feel safe... Protected from
all that is not good and right... The sound of the
rustling leaves from a nearby dogwood as the
soft wind glides past... It seems to be calling
me to rest... I drift into the other realm where
my mind will rest at least for the moment...
