Higher and Higher on a Midnight Ride I want you to come with me on a ride High in the sky through clouds of puffed cream Soaring to places you never beheld Places of which you have never dreamed I'll wish the heavens for gilded ivory wings To allow the freedom of the rolling night sky Willing and able to fly higher and higher Grinning madly from faces wind-dried Aiming true towards the deep ocean clear Shimmering fins for our white wings in the aqua blue Far beyond the open surface air Over the ridges and coral rock, past the kelp forest, too Erupting from the Earth out into Eternity Farther and farther to where streaking comets play Rocketing nearby the color plumed planets From our earthen home to the cosmos we'll stray In between the Planes on this wondrous ride Exploding across ghostly fibrous Astral seams Soar within a wispy world of pinkish-white Searching for adventure through the tendrils of dreams Lighting upon swaying prairie grasses Lying down among the dusky wind blown fields Permitting ourselves to fall backward through time Awaiting with pleasure at what the night might yield