Brilliant Shadows of Lost Dreams

Deep shadows and brilliant highlights of things unseen,
a harvest full of lies and animosity.
lost within our own heartbreak and dreams,
we fade into an unknown reality.

Our future slowly becomes our past.
with unwilling urgency we forgo our compassion,
living, breathing for things we can never have.
with an open heart and a set mind,
we leave behind our childhood, our freedom.

Tied down with sorrow and responsibility,
we forget how to be happy, young
becoming what we never wished to become,
we give up all hope.

Our destiny changes, and our memories suddenly become
missing pieces, of an unfinished puzzle.
we become weak, ready to let life end,
sinking into deep shadows,
we think back onto the brilliant highlights
that drifted away,
with our long lost childhood.