dreamland

i know you as if we've never met
strangers not for a second
drawn like currents northward
undenied and unrestrained
a steady flow to dream-state
predetermined without us
despite our fumbling presence

driven by nothing else
but the coming dawn
you turn to me as a vision
wrapping me up like a tradewind
in a once billowless sail
both pulling and pushing me
toward my horizon, my dreamland