Betwixt a Myth and Reality

– A Collaboration w/ Poet Chris Smith

Do you believe in Dragons,
watching over this world?
Myths of a forgotten legend,
from an older time now gone

 

If only this modern age,
could be full of heroes
Barbarians from another era,
where the maidens were fair

 

In this, mystical far off land

Captured am I by cruel fate

Alone in the highest tower

Longing to be saved, rescued

 

Oh, where art thou my knight?

As I know, time stands still

Even as days, pass me by slowly

Turning into months, now years

 

If only this knight,
could reach into the past,
Be a hero of another time
Instead of trapped in today

 

Pictures of her so long ago
Reflected in the pages,
of a book of ages gone

If only I could rescue her

 

Upon ages here I have remained

Knowing in this heart, tis’ pointless

As harsh reality comes to awaken

No one can save me except myself

 

Beliefs of what could be, extinct

Be there no hero’s of these times

Forever at lost, betwixt space �" time

As I rise to the challenge, a warrior

 

She keeps haunting my dreams
How can the unreal, be so real?
Centuries split her away from me
Another place in another time

 

In my dreams, I see her fighting
Sword against the dragon hoard
I believed this only imagination
But she seems to call me from afar

 

Am I falling into madness?
Awaiting, for my dreams to come true
Can I reach across the realms of time?
If I rescue her, will she in turn rescue me?

 

Even as the night descends, I dream

It takes me to a different era �" time

Such serenity takes over my existence

As I whisper his name, to come save me

 

In each passing day, I grow weary of battles

Fought ceaselessly, alone I dare challenge

A longing for my knight, to stand with me

Facing all opposed, united as one entity

 

Tis a dream, naught more, for alone I stand

As I draw my sword in this endless battle

Against the demons of these days �" nights

Consuming my essence, unto exhaustion

 

Then the night took me to a different reality,
In finally being together, to battle as one soul
Leaving behind me another world, a part of me
As sometimes we must fight, to follow our dreams

 

 

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