Poetry

It Was Only a Dream

written by: OurSacredHonor

Words clutter my brain waves
So the only thought that saves
My sanity
From a calamity
Is one of a dream
That seemed
All so real
I could feel
Once again
Like I did back then
Reliving a moment
Through the point of my pen
It leaks onto the page furiously
As I explore curiously
The depths of a mind
Lost in a sleeping thought
Turned around by the
Utter confusion wrought
Lessons taught
Unlearned
Answers sought
Eyes burn
Scouring in the darkness
Not seeing
The absent meaning
Of the life I live when I'm sleeping

It was only a dream
That's what I tell myself
It was only a dream
It was nothing else
It was only a dream
But I can't help my runaway imagination
I can't help but want to stay in my mind's creation
But it was only a dream

A cold lonely bed
Awaits my head
I feel the weight of the world
Upon each eye
Restlessly rolling
As the bedsprings sigh
And loudly creak
My coherent thoughts become weak
I slowly start to slip away
Fade out of today
Into a world neither yesterday nor tomorrow
A place where I escape my sorrow
Set me free
From chains of reality
And unleash a feeling
I'm reeling
Uncontrollably
Trapped in my own body
No control over what I do
All I know is I can see you
As if you were right here
But I fear
This'll end too soon
Like a new moon
You know its there but it can't be seen
Yet the outline's oh so clean
Like a play on a stage
I feel trapped in a cage
Unable to affect the sights I see
You were right in front of me
I hugged you and smiled
We laughed for a while
I just can't tell you what it means
But I wish you could've stayed with me

It was only a dream
That's what I tell myself
It was only a dream
It was nothing else
It was only a dream
But I can't help my runaway imagination
I can't help but want to stay in my mind's creation
But it was only a dream

Let me sleep a little longer
Let me figure out what it means
Let me stay there a little later
Stay there in my dreams

It was only a dream
That's what I tell myself
It was only a dream
It was nothing else
It was only a dream
But I can't help my runaway imagination
I can't help but want to stay in my mind's creation
But it was only a dream

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