Divided Unity

Dreamer's Ramble

Follow your dreams, they said...

They said it would all be fine; they said

I'd be whoever I wanted to be

But that's just a falsehood in my head.

Pursue your passions, they told me...

Find your happiness; they told me

I'd be smiling every morning

But instead the tears are all that hold me.

But darling, where are you in this?

Where does your heart lie; dreamer dear,

Which way does your heart turn; do your thoughts yearn

For freedom, dreamer dear?

Where are your aspirations, love;

The goal for which you strain

There's a light at the end of the tunnel

I promise you though, it's not a train.

I ponder now, reach for the sky

Am I one with earth or with a star?

Haven't I already said that maybe I am the world;

Or from the truth am I still too far?

No reconciliation from a home I deem not mine

A name I label wrong, a mane I find unfit;

No currency gives any sense of care, but for a fare

Like the depths of the lakes and the cities bordering there.

Pluck each memory free of skin, I say;

I remember every word at times, but not reliably, I'd say,

That maybe I'm still hiding, and still learning how to forgive

That even though I can't let go, then maybe I can at least live.