Composed sporadically over a number of months, after the initial inspiration came while walking home from Hazel Grove Railway Station one very rainy and windy night, during which the first stanza was begat.

Completed in the early hours (3:00) of Friday, 17th October, 2008.

(Revised 12 hours later)
There's something quite calmly hypnotic about
This lamp-lit pavement shining gold
As I walk along it in the rain
And wind and dark

This glowing plane of golden stars
Afloat amidst a sea of space
With planetary soakened leaves
And pools in bends of time and space

Which recedes beneath me as I move
Like a magic carpet under me
Never stopping short to throw me off
Merely gliding under as a gust

Of wind propels
Me on