The Nocturnal Illusion

Slipping back into my dream world

After a long disappointing day has unfurled,

It is there I find another life

Without the depression that cuts like a knife,

A reality that doesn’t hurt so bad

Without losing the women I should have had,

Taking me so far away

From the selflessness of another day,

The nocturnal paradise I fall into

Once the pale moon comes into view,

That’s where the sorrow ends and I no longer miss you

These fleeting hours before the morning dew,

Oh Lord of the merciful night

Granting me a whole new life in my mind and out of sight,

Let me take hold of this other existence

When I fall asleep without too much resistance,

Within that sphere where wives don’t run away

And those children you raised don’t fall astray,

The night blankets me from the daytime pain

Like the sensation of misty rain,

Oh come again my mysterious friend

As I close my eyes and descend,

A crystalline world of fantasy that swirls

While the wizard’s magic wand just twirls,

Then I catch a fading glimpse of her smile again

Just before the nocturnal illusion ends.