Dreams

Illusions of happiness
Seduce, flirt with my fancy
And evoke a restless feeling in the night.

It stops my walk
And claims the search is over.
I pause to taste the sweetness that was never really there.

The drifting images changed me
For the better, might I add.
And for that I am thankful.

Promises of a lasting seal
Allowed me to prepare myself
And straighten the crooked path I traveled so well.

But illusions are mere guides for fools,
Who have waited all their lives
For a chance to die in order to live.

It promises and directs
And will not stop… until it is time to awake,
Until daylight has arrived and the lonely morning begins.

Awake, I find nothing...
The empty world has nothing
To satisfy the void I feel.

I long to rest and turn numb once again
Where silence reigns and pain no longer exists,
To sleep, to dream and to drift away.