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Hope's Unkept Secret

time sits restless upon today
as an eerie melody sings of a
tomorrow that may never come
there I ponder all the minutes long gone
and the moments longing to be

and I can't help but feel your presence
laced within all my thoughts
as dreams dangle undreamt
from stars that refuse to shine

I realize the twilight hours that
used to embrace me, unconditionally
no longer offers me
any refuge from dawn

sometimes I can't feel anything at all
and other times all I feel is you
but a lingering silence becomes
the distance between us

because all the small talk
is nothing more than
an arrow straight and true
piercing all the words
that need to be said

words that will betray our hearts,
with our very own truth
and that's when I find myself
in that place where excuses
aren't acceptable anymore

where dreams are just dreams
and where love won't save us,
or set us free
and all that we are
seems like nothing more than
some sort of fantasy

as the quickening
tick of time
seems to orchestrate
the beat of my heart
I reason it is all just a facade,
that there is so much more truth
beyond today

but deep within the secrets
I keep hidden
in the shadows of my soul
I know tomorrow's hope
no longer shimmers or glows
that we are already
just a memory,
our love simply a tattered page
etched unnoticed and soon to be forgotten
upon the lonely book of history

© LadyRaine