new one, 1 28 2000 (new journey)

with a decent house and time to myself
i get my little tin box of the shelf
i open it up expecting to find-
	what?  i've found an elf,
	this isn't something to make me unwind..

but he told her he was the elf of the stars
he looks inside your tins and jars
perhaps they might find something-
	like candybars?
	just to fuel his dreamy winged machine

now this little elf man told me
that mother natures gifts are blessed be
and if you should ever fail
	to achieve happiness independently,
	these things were meant to ail.

i liked to believe what he told
i used these when i was lonely and cold
perhaps to ease my pain?
	i'd begin to feel sensations so bold
	that for the first time i felt sane.

so i kicked back with elf of stars today
and we managed to get to mars, some way
because we shared a dream?
	the mission was A-OK,
	we had begun our journey under a moonbeam

well, we got back home a little late,
we bought all the mangoes in aisle 8,
we made ourselves a salad the night,
	it'd be pretty fucked up if this was fate
	but who knows, is anything right?

he wasn't a little elf anymore
for when he walked through my door,
again, he was himself
	lookin a little poor
	but a grateful man i still called elf.

and in a dream it was just like this
him and me and the purest bliss
we didn't need anything more
	who knows if we ever even kissed?
	nirvana emanated from our very core..

everything began to fade
unmoving, i wished i could have stayed
for one more moment with elfstar.
	he faded away in the shade
	but already we were too far.

pulled out of my astral travel
i feel like i could unravel
the mystery of what's become of my best friend
	this is all on a whole new level
	this journey will never end.

=== Copyright Katrina Kidwell Johnson ===