I chased my shadow across a moonlit night
Where was I going? My reflection cared not.
As hill turned to plain and rock to grass,
It was not through pain I laid down and gazed.

A thousand lights filled my needy soul,
And crisp dry air replaced my aching lungs.
My body afloat on the largest of seas
It was none of these thoughts that engulfed my mind.

Had my shadow run off to a vacant land?
Were the lights in the sky a million dreams?
I could float but swim? I never dared try
My life have I lived? Not even for a day.