~ If Only For A Night ~

Grand ideas in a hotel room, drunk at 3 am,
Listening to Radiohead and plotting roadtrips
Dreams that can only be drunken dreams
Once the dawning daylight of reality
Comes to extinguish the hedonistic glory
With those old killjoys of practicality
And pragmatically.

Another lover lost to time and space
And one can be worn down by these transient meetings
But Jess, I still feel the energy of your presence
As you return to your normal life in the States
And I still linger here in Asia.

Some people shine so brightly in a brief encounter
And then they leave you with that golden glow
Leading you to search for it in the eyes of others
Only to realise it was only temporary
Fleeting and fragile like the flowers of spring
Reminding you once again
That the best things in life
And the most beautiful things
Never last, even if the memories do.

The rock of reality always waits to fall
And you separate like ripples on a blank shore
Leaving you astray and alone in that hotel room
Dreaming of that glorious road trip in the sun
To realise you had already had it
If only for a night.