Eyes Closed, Elsewhere Found

The fan turns the light moves

and I close my eyes to leave the room behind

In that silence I find a home far from here—

mountains rivers a sky that feels just right

She’s there with a smile and so is the life

Time doesn’t follow me there

It waits patient as if it knows I’ll return

I don’t care how the world runs—

who builds it who breaks it

or how it measures worth in fleeting hours

I don’t care for the noise of it

the rush the demands the endless grind

But I open my eyes

and the room reminds me where I am

The clock ticks

each second pulling me further from the dream

and deeper into a truth I can’t escape

Between the seconds I hold onto that elsewhere

not as a wish but as a promise