The clock's red numbers glared

As I find myself awake

Counting the knots in the ceiling

ignoring the stress of the approaching dawn

Outside the sky is starless

Yet I’m drawn to the window

Tracing the snow on tree bows

with weary sleepless eyes

The old shoes sit in the corner

Their soles wore thin

They slip on my feet

As I climb out the window

The neighbor’s dog greets me

With rude piercing barks

The snow cracks like glass

In the vast stretch of fields

While breaths hang in the air

A light drifts overhead

The clouds break their thin form

And I’m pulled to a stop

Waves of full moonlight

Sweep across the crystal snow

While the stars sail

traversing the darkened ocean

No sounds break the night

But that of late-night drivers

like mindless crustaceans 

Roving the bottom of the midnight sea

All problems have faded

As I am caught in this trance

Weary eyes lost amongst the stars

With the old shoes as my only raft

So adrift in the moonlight

I find myself washed up

Back through the window

Spit out on a familiar shore

The memories of that ocean

Fade with the melting snow

pooling on the warped wood floor

Reflecting the clocks dull red glow