Lament for Lost Dreams

I woke up one day,

and didn't know whence I came.

I looked back one day,

and nothing spoke my name.

I saw myself from afar,

and could not comprehend.

I felt a throbbing scar,

and knew it would never mend.

I beheld the path behind me,

and the weeds were growing tall.

I looked where my footsteps should be,

but there was nothing there at all.

I knelt down without a sound,

feeling the emptiness inside.

I buried my face in the ground,

screaming silently to stem the tide.

I will cry out into the night,

and let my anguish die away.

I will thrust my agony aside,

to prepare for a new day.

in this moment my strength failed,

I was falling through the ground.

in the distance my soul wailed,

all my parts became unbound.

in this moment I felt strong,

I could see me inside out.

and my soul it came along,

so effacing my pitch-dark bout.

I cried for what was not meant to be,

a last tribute to lost dreams.

I had to leave behind my effigy,

and with it bury all my screams.

I turned around and looked straight on,

aware of the crossroads up ahead.

I felt my fear the first time gone,

and saw a future for me to tread.

I will cry out into the night,

and let my anguish die away.

I will thrust my agony aside,

to prepare for a new day.