"Follow your dreams"
Words spoken from stretched lips
Lipstick cracked and peeling
Words that spoke of flying through summer skies
With as little care as a fluttering sparrow
Words that spoke of swimming through stars
And reaching for their golden light
Words that spoke of riding through a forest
At one with the spirits of towering trees
My brain was brimming with fantastical things
As I lay my head to sleep
But alas my sleep had not become a dream
Nor my dreams a fantasy
Like every night as I rested my eyes
Sleep folded around me
Dark claws reached from shadowy folds
Tore gouges in my skin
The dark that covered me like slick oil
Slid through every pore
My mouth so filled with poison
Lungs breathing it like air
As I reached for glimmers of fading light
A memory smiling from above
Crumbling lips drew forth those cursed words
"Follow your dreams "
