PAPER DREAMS
written by: TM DiSarro
@tmdisarro
My life is lost in paper dreams
So worn with sweet decay
Nostalgia bears the crush of passing years
Taints the things I write about
Through every wasted day
As letters take the place of falling tears
There’s always vague remembrances
I twist to suit my will
To make the hurt seem less than what it is
Writing out these scenes
I never really fill the space
Between what’s real and everything I miss
The years play tricks to equalize
The heartbreak on the page
As we concede that fate is less than kind
But all that really matters
Is the way I disengage
To minimize confusion in my mind
The past can only compensate
For distance as I blame
Creating walls from all I cannot show
And every line I write
Becomes a roadmap to your name
Determining the path that my heart goes
We harbor our regrets
Like ships of mischief in the sea
And sail them into rocks along the shore
Leave the truth like castaways
Abandoned on a page
Drowning in the words that we adore
Jumping ship when cornered
Is the way that we survive
Panic as we sink beneath the waves
Blind to any saving grace
To possibly revive
Ignorant to any love that saves
Lost in sweet nostalgia
An illusion to be sure
Starvation won’t suffice the unredeemed
Images of words
Create realities that blur
Living life Inside these paper dreams
© 2017 TM DiSarro/MindScapesPublishing
- Drown - November 19, 2021
- Conclusion - August 24, 2021
- Thief Of Time - June 2, 2021
