Dreams

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When hope is lost, but life remains, there's nowhere left to go,

when dreams are gone, but i remain, lying on the ground,

i tore my dreams to pieces, and threw them in the fire, 

gave up taking them back, when the flames kept getting higher

i threw my courage in a hole, the deepest i could find,

but now i'm afraid to take it back, i'm afraid of what's inside

i built myself a barrier, to protect others from me, 

someone else tore it down, for a while i was happy,

but now that barrier caught fire, and shredded all the ground,

now the floor around me's ash, and i don't know how to stand

my dreams haven't burnt up, no fire of man can touch them, 

but the hand i try to grasp them with, burns away to nothing

my courage is still, sitting in, the deepest crevasse,

not broken by the fall, nor by the dark inside me

but while my dreams aren't burnt, and my courage isn't broken, 

i have no way to take them back, no way to bring them safe

no dreams to find a way, to bridge across the fire,

and no courage, or bravery, to dive into that hole

and so i remain broken, lying on the ground, 

now i'm just sitting here, waiting for life to end...

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