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Keep it away from me

Hide it somewhere in the past

Where there’s still something left to yearn

Before it all comes crumbling down

Just let me rest my eyes

Just for now….

What I had I never realized

It was the life of me

The air I breathe, the spark inside me

Let it slip through my fingers

Disappear right before my eyes

It wasn’t my mind

Ignoring tears on my reflection

Truths unspoken lurking

It wasn’t my mind

Suppressing signs of this infection

Spreading like cancer each day

Creeping behind me

Memories of a tale forgotten

A moment so mundane

I can’t recall no more

Dormant Inside me

Ash and ruin of a dream discarded

A promise to myself

I could not keep no more