Time Floats On

(lieutenant)
 what child
 this night
 whose dreams
 take flight?
 what child
 somewhere
 sleeps
 unaware?
 what life
 that yet
 has no
 regrets?
 what child
 who knows
 what dreams
 i've closed?
 time floats on
 as i write these letters
 that you'll never see
 still each one's gone
 placed in a bottle
 so tides they might follow
 and somehow find their way to thee
 what child
 this night
 whose wings
 take flight?
 on evening
 winds
 what dreams
 begins?
 each day
 begets
 its own
 regrets
 do i
 dare wait
 or joust
 with fate?
 time floats on
 as i write these letters
 that you'll never see
 still each one's gone
 placed in a bottle
 so the tides they might follow
 and somehow find their way to thee