Heartache of Dreams

wrote for a contest

The city lights are bright

In the dark vacant night

A single man looks out from where he sits on a park bench

He is suddenly taken back with a heart aching wrench

He is twenty nine and it's as if his life has passed him by

He is alone in the world consumed by the night sky

Once upon a time he had his chance at happiness

Till a decision he made, one that he constantly would reassess

She was everything to him

But he thought there was more to life and he left her on a whim

He packed his bags and hoped on the next flight

He bought a one way ticket to the ciy of lights

He decided it was time to live his dream

But big city life was not as it would seem

He traded his house for a one room flat

His car replaced by the subway which he needed a lot of work at

Work was not the creative carefree enviornment he expected

Instead a high paced headache, his ideas continually rejected

Then there was the girl he left behind

Her face always present in his mind

If he closed his eyes long enough he could almost sense her

As if she was lying beside him and they were as they once were

In that moment he could find peace

Till he opened his eyes and the feeling would cease

He never thought his dream would change

He'd give it all back if he could have her in exchange

The lingering question of  "What if" could finally be destroyed

The presence of her in his life would fill the void

If he could only turn back time

An endless mountain he would climb

The city of lights would fade in the distance

He would become part of an existence

But in the end it is him and the bench

Forever stuck with the heart aching wrench

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Kitty]

Sad, but hauntingly beautiful!!!! Thank you for entering the Thoughts contest. Sorry it has taken so long to read through.

Josie

[*i.L.k.R^^4EVR*......]

wow, thats amazing. im not really good at the whole rhymeing thing. great write!

[Aube Ralph]

ok theresa...i know you're a genius when it comes to these rhymes you have created so i am challenging you...give me a poem that doesn't rhyme and totally bares your soul. hehe