I dreamt a dream and in it everything was nothing
And the thickness of the darkness was daunting
I craved a knife to cut through the palpable darkness
So I could move an inch, but it was like a mile's vastness
Then suddenly in this nothingness I saw him
His luminous self lighting up my black dream
He was a firefly and his light brought respite to my aching eyes
"My name is Hope" he said, as my eyes grew bigger with surprise
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She has my heart but another's got hers
Not the firefly please, I mean the fair lass
When I had my chance, perhaps I lagged
But that other swooped in and his he grabbed
Instead of racing against time I would stand
Because I thought in my hourglass I had sand
But as I would painfully find out and for which I now suffer
All the while, my hourglass in it had water
When I spoke to her, she told me she was spoken for
Now the pain in my heart has become an open sore
And I feel hard done-by by time, distance and fate
Alas! All is lost! All is gone and all I feel for her must abate
But the firefly taught me about the light at every tunnel's end
"No white flags yet" he said; "In me you have a friend"
He said to hold on to him and no more in the darkness grope
He said to hold on to the glimmer on his butt and never let go of "Hope"
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