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Will I age like the crystal unicorn

Trapped in never, never land?

Drinking from the purple stream

With the same face staring back?

 

Year after year

Will I roam the paradise alone?

Still wallowing in miseries,

The butterflies my only hope?

 

One day I’m whisked away upon one’s wing

And we glide among the stars,

The moon illuminates my dreams,

Away from my distant past.

 

The silhouette of England stands

Before the falling sun,

And we reach the shore in the light of ‘twi’

To watch it come back up.

 

I walk alone upon the rocky beach

And look into the murky sea,

But an elderly, unknown man

Is staring back at me.

 

This once crystal unicorn

Is now all but a wilted man.

The place I left was everything,

But I longed for more than that.

 

I now just sit upon the beach

Trying to find a new path home,

Because the butterfly’s wings fell off

When she lost all hope.

 

Then one night I went to rest

With the waves tickling my feet,

And rejoiced as I woke

Because the tide had swallowed me.

 

I was washed upon the golden sands,

Cleansed by the purple waves,

But as I looked into the stream

I was burdened by dismay.

 

The gorgeous crystal unicorn

Who I once used to be,

Was still replaced by a dying man

Staring back at me.

 

With this I soon realised

That on leaving never, never land

The crystal unicorn shattered

And is now a haggard man.

 

Running into the wild wood

I found myself a vine,

I climbed a tree and leaped back off

Whispering ‘goodbye.’

 

The old man hangs there to this day,

The vine around my neck.

Except the look within my eye

The unicorn is all but dead.

Reviews

[Nathan Noble]

another great write.
we reach the shore in the light of 'twi' nice line.
you paint a great picture here, awesome work.