Hide and Seek

With a heavy heart
I play hide and seek
Hiding within the stuffed animals
playing with plastic
Hiding from the now
Long before this world came
You weren't here.
Now it seems that world
never existed, so long ago.
I know you mean well
But it's hard to know now
It's not what I need
Is it even what we need?
I don't want another ransom note.
I just want a love letter
One with crayons
and backward letters.
Where have we gone?
Why have the prints disappeared
from behind us?
The lights are out,
what's the way back.
Raise from bed, it's still here.
We haven't left.
We only let our minds take us to serenity
as we drift from our tears.
We wake up with filled eyes,
is there no end to this?
Is no day a game?
Has it been such a short time
from when we played
to where its no longer our toys that are breaking?
I don't care a bit,
not with ponies and crayons.
I did care with everything,
is everything gone?
Was it all just dust on the trail?
I'm spinning in circles,
I can't find a way for us to leave,
Only crags in rock.
How did we get here.
While we sit and sift sand
through our fingers,
can we play a game?
Will you play with me?
If I hide, will you seek me?
Or are we both hiding,
not wanting to see the take over,
when it all began.
Will we play a game instead of seeing everything?
Instead of walking back out to where
the light once shone,
where we could see where we walked.
Can we find our way out,
Will we let us leave?
Is there no solace from here?