of Quiet Dreams & a Lake

A dream of getting out, coupled with a longing for some sort of good memory in a time when things felt a little rough. This helped me get through that. Hope it will prove worth reading to you, as well

We were standing on the shoreline 

waiting for a moment to arrive 

the first light or at least 

another quiet dream 

of any other kind 

You spoke like there was something 

you just barely understood 

that you were wearing 

like lightning just beneath your skin 

and I remember you saying 

it was a quiet dream to carry 

still, it gave us 

a real reason to listen 

From another perspective perhaps we were mad 

but seen with our own eyes we were just hoping 

to skate away on the thin ice of a new day 

knowing it could break wasn't reason enough 

for us to be afraid 

Yes, madly perhaps 

but at the very least living 

it's all too easy to forget?it's not enough 

just to survive 

I looked at you then, and said ever so softly 

"Let your night wait 

just a little while" 

seeing a thousand midnights bloom 

in the way you smiled 

Like you thought you were the only one crying 

for an innocence lost 

not your own, no, that is still not yet done dying 

but for those who it got it taken 

and at what that cost 

It looked a little like you were wishing it away 

The pain and the sorrow 

but I loved you for it 

And to this day I will swear it is reason enough 

for anyone about to give up 

to believe 

just a little longer 

I was lost inside a miracle 

when you said you thought 

you could let it all go 

All the great sorrows you’d borrowed along the way 

were just little gentle white longings 

not the pale blue regret 

of the hollow one at prayer 

that you used to know 

the gamble lost, the last wrong bet 

a quiet dream was breaking through 

the faith that was but is no more

the wintertime blues 

that used to weigh so heavy on your soul

seems to have decided 

it was time to follow another road

So there we were 

on such an ethereal day 

both of us lost in the quiet dream we'd made

me through getting us out

and you by letting go

Standing at that shoreline

watching the evening light

We needed nothing more

We'd always fought to be alive

but now that the war was over 

and we knew for sure

up until this point 

had we even really lived at all 

 

So, chasing the first light 

over the thinnest ice 

madly daring everything to break 

I know we had won when I saw the smile 

which made you have that look in your eyes

speaking of hopes and dreams

and of sunshine roads leading everywhere

 you always wanted to go

 

We finally made it

Yes, baby.. we made it through

and the lonesome wind

that always blew

will be but a faded memory

sometime soon

We got out following sunshine roads

with the great sorrows of two lost souls

slowly fading away

until they were just a little white longing

and not really sorrows at all

anymore

 

 

Author's Note

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