Night Poem by Leonard Dabydeen

Night
climbs into my thoughts
as my mind
stirs into consciousness
and I begin
to sleep-walk
as I feel the silence of darkness
cat-walk into my dreams
and I listen to owls
day-dreaming
and conferencing
about the color of daylight
so xenophobic
in their hooting echoes
and then
watching the undisturbed sky
I catapult into the clouds
just to listen to their watery joy
as they hide the moon
from harnessing my dreams
and then
with hands akimbo
I plummet to the stars
just to catch a glimpse
of their twinkling beauty
excited to make new friends
wherever I go
until the moon
goes to sleep
and I come home
to let the cows
out in the pasture
of untainted joy.