Night Reading

A Pegasus tapped
on my window last night
offered to take me for a ride;
I clambered onto his back
he opened his wings up wide.
We flew across the ocean
to places I'd never been,
He introduced me to people
the likes of which I'd never seen.
I held on tightly to his mane
for the Pegasus outflew a plane.

He took me to the stars and moon
much to my delight,
He told me the secrets of their glow
why they shine so brightly in the night.
The Pegasus flew me around the world
To the cold arctic zone of the northern pole,
to tombs and pyramids in Egypt,
to the beaches in Hawaii
and into the depths of a volcano.

When our night's journey was done,
The Pegasus returned me home
and flew back into the sky
from whence he had come.

When I awoke, upon my bed,
where before nothing had been,
there lay a book which I promptly read
of all the places I had been.