The clock strikes midnight as I lay half-awake in bed
Then, an instant later…
Paradise..

First, I breathe in the fresh salt-water air
As I watch the sun slowly slip just below the horizon.
I dig my feet into the cool, moist sand,
And listen to the seagulls' cry against the wind.

Fireflies are dancing in the muted sky,
Waves sweep across the shoreline,
Crabs scurry under the sand,
The moon glistens in a beam thrown across the sea,
As the dolphins leap gracefully out of the water.

It was a midnight summer’s dream.

 

Poem submitted by C/Capt Tiffany Hamm