Sweet Dreams

I wish my warm and cosy dreams

would stay inside my head

instead of floating off for good

when I get out of bed.

I’d like to put them in a box,

all those I want to  keep

then choose the one I want at night

before I go to sleep.

 Jenny Erlanger

First published as “Dreams” in “Giggles and Niggles” (Haddington Press, 2007)

• Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #21