Promise of a Golden Dawn

We all need a dream sometimes,

Because sometimes reality sucks.

It's flat and boring and depressing.

Dreams take us away from that.

They have light, angelic wings that span across the sky.

Sometimes the world is dark and cold.

Sometimes we have to go it alone,

Despite all the people that would love to help us.

The only thing that can never be pulled away is a dream.

People need dreams like the world needs dreamers.

A bright, shining light.

Something good, barely in the distance.

A reason to hold on.

Dreams are the promise of a golden dawn

Even in the midst of our darkest days.

People hold on to dreams because dreams hold on to people,

Anchoring them in the very reality dreams are an escape from.

Dreams are what let us hope.

New Plan

I'm tired of being told how my life is going to go.

Take this class

Follow this plan

And you'll go far you know.

We've counted out the years of your life.

We'll tell you how to spend them right.

Just sit back

No need to fight.

You're all unique little snowflakes.

Now follow this cookie-cutter plan.

It doesn't make a difference how you're different

Just as long as you stay on the path.

I don't want to follow the rules.

I want to throw away the plan.

I want to make my own road.

I'll make it a better one if I can.

Growing Up is a Trap

The years of childhood are shaky and indefinite.
You never know how many you will have.
Too often they end too soon.
Society calls you an adult at eighteen.
That doesn't mean you haven't already grown up.

Growing up is a trap.
It's forsaking fun for responsibility.
It's giving in to the darkness of the world around you.
It's getting rid of the part of you that most dares dream.

Far too often, childhood ends far too soon.
Almost as often it can come back.
Maybe the laughter of any child will trigger it.
Maybe the laughter of your own.
Maybe something else, entirely unknown.

Regardless of the cause, the effect will be the same.
You'll give off that childish laughter
As you play some childish game.
And you'll know in that moment, some things
Some things never have to change.

Growing old is necessary,
But growing up is a trap.
There's no reason you can't get the spirit of childhood back.
You can't avoid responsibilities
And all that with them you gain.
But you don't have to lose the light and laughter.

   That,
          I think,
                    Should remain.

Midnight Inspiration

Frantic midnight inspirations.

Those are the best kind.

The scribble on the nearest piece of paper the second your eyes fly open kind.

The unfounded, unbridled kind.

You don't know where it came from

But you hope it never leaves.

Black Coffee

I didn't like black coffee at first.

We tend to reject things that are bitter, 

Or that make us feel bitter.

But sometimes bitter things make us better.

A beam of light is seen most clearly

When the world is at its darkest.

I didn't like black coffee.

I didn't like a world not diluted

And coated with sugar.

I didn't like it unsweetened.

But that bitter flavor of reality is sometimes the sweetest,

Because the deepest bit of truth,

The texture that lured you into coffee in the first place,

Is what tastes the strongest.

Undereye Baggage

Sleep.

The ultimate caller of forgotten responsibilities.

As soon as your head hits the pillow,

BAM!

Homework suddenly remembered,

Chores unearthed.

The annoying sensation of something missing is brought to the front of your mind.

Many unproductive hours could've been the opposite.

You heave yourself out of bed.

The bags under your eyes have only ever been destined to grow. 

You wouldn't change it.

Thicker Than Blood

Blood is thicker than water.

It's a phrase we all must've heard,

Whether as scolding advice or simple fact.

It's not one that I believe.

It's as well intended as any so-called words of wisdom get,

But the intentions are where its honesty ends.

Family is important

But sometimes blood is not enough to mend.

Family can betray us just as easily as anyone else can.

That's a fact that we all try to keep far away from our hearts,

Hidden in the deepest, darkest corners of our own subconscious minds.

That's part of what makes it so much harder to believe when it finds its way into our lives.

Family is important,

But some things are more important.

Trust is thicker than water, and

Love is thicker than blood.