Tonight I Lie Dreaming

   Today I had to look up the difference between to lay and to lie. The problem comes, for me, when to lie becomes the past tense lay. Confused? So am I.
   I decided to play with the concept of laying and lying, so I wrote a poem.
   "Tonight I Lie Dreaming" is the title. That is present tense. Last night I lay dreaming, is past tense. Now I lay me down to sleep is also present tense.

Tonight I Lie Dreaming

by Zach Knell

     Tonight I lie dreaming, as every kid would

     The reason is simple, though not understood.

     Why in the night do our minds come alive

     And color and movement and music arrive?

     The world is harmonic with sunshine aglow

     Water is clear, through it's rapids we row.

     The leaves on the tree often shake with the wind

     Not violently, softly, our fears they rescind

     No you can't move mountains though people have tried

     But surely in dreams I can push them aside

     I fly in the air full of lucidity

     up and beyond and past infinity

   

     If only, if only, in dreams could we live

     The sins of the past we could better forgive

     Tonight I lie dreaming, as every kid would

     The reason is simple, everyone should.