Dream

Anywhere but here is where I want to be.
Any view but out there is what I want to see.
The struggles of this life become too much.
My will to keep up the fight is lost.
I want to escape to a better place,
I want to lead a better life,
I want to create a better me.
I want to be released and freed.
The evils of truth have grabbed hold of me.
Soon if I don’t leave, reality will strangle me.
The bitter routine of another gloomy day brings turmoil.
For all it’s worth, there is one thing reality can’t touch.
That is of course my dreams.
The hopes, the wishes, the dream scene.
They’re all that keep me alive and breathing it seems.
Without these dreams, I’d be lost and feeling lifeless.
One day it finally happens, I make my escape.
I reinvent my life the way I want it.
The life of pain and sorrow is at it’s end.
I live the dream in fullest content.
The life I knew is in the past, never to return again.
I am away from it all, the people, the places, the memories.
They that confined me to my past existence.
I finally am loving, happy, and free.
This is the life I am meant for,
the person I’m meant to be.
Before I get into the step of things, my eyes snap open.
I awake in the same life I’ve had.
Again I have dreamed.
The sadness returns with me in its clutches.
For now and ever my spirits are crushed.
All because I dared to dream.