Hot and muggy.

Bright summer night.

So dead and crowded at the same time.

I ran through tall grass away from the barking.

I hold my breath, my heart beat shaking my body.

Silence for a second as the boats creaked in the water.

I awake from my sleep, the moon still shining.

It was dark yet it was so bright from the moonlight.

I look in the reflection of the water and see myself.

It doesn’t look like the me I last saw.

A bark snaps me out of it.

Too bright to hide anywhere,

The moon is like a spotlight,

Singling me out in the harbor 

I was taken away

It goes back to still silence 

The small waves wash up

Like I was never there

I gazed back but it was already gone