We can be a princess,
We can be a queen,
We can be everything in between.
We will slay dragons,
Fight with kings,
Win battles and wear pretty things.
Dreams by the dozen we carry,
Fields of wildflowers and trees of cherry.
Dancing and twirling amongst the stars,
Sliding down rainbows,
Driving shiny cars.
We inhale the petrichor,
Feeling giddy,
And walk within the forest of giant trees.
Laughter echoes loud and clear,
As our dreams drag us deeper,
A welcomed void.
It stands waiting on the other side,
Its’ claws sharpened like a spear.
We walk into its’ arms unaware,
With nary a fear.
Our imaginations soon spiral into nightmares,
Reality peaks through the blinds.
We walk through our jaded world,
As our dreams trail quietly behind.
We spend time trying to survive,
The hours fly by in the blink of an eye.
We stand staring at lost moments,
Stuck in a daze,
Stupefied.
Pebble by pebble we built our castle,
Yet we stand by as life claims its stones.
Swallowing it all,
Starved and hungry.
Nothing remains, not even its’ bones.
We keep thinking tomorrow will come,
We keep thinking tomorrow will be better.
We keep thinking we can do it all,
We keep dreaming we can have it all.
Remember,
Hope bares its’ claws,
Sharper than despair.
But unsatisfied dreams,
Lay our souls bare.
We chase paper trails when awake,
And build houses on trees when asleep.
Our dreams reflect the hungry needs of our reality.
Yet when comes sunrise,
We hide behind our suits and tie.
Few venture forth,
To take up the quest.
To shake up reality,
And build their nest.
Spiraling into the empty,
They drag their dreams into world,
Passions poured in aplenty,
Their wings unfurled.
We watch them build,
Brick by brick,
The castles they dreamed.
Their words,
Unapologetic, unredeemed.
They aim higher and fly even farther
We just watch.
We can only dream
Wonder clouds our judgement,
As we try to search where we went wrong.
We keep searching for reasons,
The same old song.
Soon the time passes by,
We sink into what we are.
The claws pull us back in,
We fall in deeper, even more far.
We go back to the make believe,
Run in the forests, climb trees,
Play in our castle of lost dreams.
