Ah, What Wishes!

                                                 
I have traveled through my wishes
dreamt in years of resting sleep;
and my journeys have invited me
to views of history.

I have met the ancient Vikings,
ridden trains of bravery;
seen the mountain men discover
distant lands in reverie.

I have crouched beside gentle men
and gazed beneath the veil
of tinkerers and wanderers
and men who manned the sail.

Through hearts of battles’ victors
or the souls who took to flight;
In the ragged contemplation
of inventors bringing light,

In my dreams I was beside them.
I, too, could feel the air
of discoveries in motion
and milestones witnessed there.

Through these journeys I am humbled
and marvel what is past;
for the lanky roughen fellas 
have delivered me a glass

of future that is present
and present that can bend
to these many nights of wishes,
from this ordinary man.