Dreams Are Fantasy

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A dream, a fantasy

Nothing more than what I can see

In my mind I dream

Hoping for something that would save me

From my lungs I scream

Clenched fists, bloodied wrists

Tears flowing and anger growing

I believe that my hopes fail

A happiness felt just barely

Punished quite unfairly

Oh tell me, what do you do

When your dreams consume you?

Telling me what I want

But remembering they are merely dreams

Never to come true

Only there in my sleep

Chasing something I can't keep

I close my eyes and I fall

My dream, my fantasy

It's what breaks me

Because for what I wish

Is to be happy, to be okay

For you

But fire grows with oxygen

So as long as I breathe

I may never leave.

6/5/15 

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