A Dream's End

The fun fades out, the real fades in
The end has come so soon
I scrape to grab back at the dream
The end of that sweet tune

Inev'table, I did not want
The dream to end this way
But I know it had to come
I knew I could not stay

Enter and leave, by motor same
The dream completes its round
And here lies I engrossed by life
Now can I make no sound

But as I lie at full alert
Wanders myself to I
Avoid the cause could I have not
And stop this by and by

The fault was mine, no else to blame
My act deplorable
My selfishness to fortune want
Now feels I horrible

But end of this, to attribute
This comes from all our fears
A nightmare now this has become
My cautionless now tears

The fear did come from that unknown
Possible friendship lost
And I assured harm could not come
There wouldn't be a cost

The worst could be to stay good friends
Naught more was there to fear
And for a time, our nerves suppressed
The dream was great from here

But now did bloom form my own way
From calming both our nerves
A fear that came reciprocal
From this derived my curves

I could not force myself believe
That one could love for me
From there downhill, I did awake
It end in tragedy

But now I live in shadowed doubt
Of what is yet to fare
My heart unsure of what's the truth
But still for you I care

And still prays I for hope delight
For by a single door
Once again the dream to come
Again, for ever more

-Keith Smithson-