i’m wide awake yet i still dream of you.

i try to escape, but thoughts of you grip me like a mother’s tight hold on her child.

how could this be?

i was silver,

you wanted gold.

i was a river,

you wanted the ocean.

i was a flower,

you wanted a whole forest.

and i was tired of it.

never again will i reach for the stars only to be scorched by the sun.

never again will your salty words sting my sweet heart.

you will leave and go away to another galaxy, a different world.

my eyes do not want to see you leave,

so my tears will blur the memory.

i lean away only to fall, but not for you.

it’s so sad, isn’t it?

you’re not in my dreams anymore.