Dreams To Die For

You dipped your toes into the darkness,

As though to test if it was cold,

And I knew right when you shivered,

You were more scared then you had told,

I wrote my words to a life ring,

Something to keep your world afloat,

But against the strength of your nightmare,

They were the soggy paper boat.

I don't know what the blackness told you,

What wondrous things I planned to give,

But I watched as the light died in your eyes,

Along with your will to live,

I screamed your name to pierce the silence,

But you were too long gone to hear,

Caught somewhere between being noticed,

And wanting to disappear.

You once said you were afraid of darkness,

And that you'd never learn to swim,

But with its promise pumped through your veins,

You held your breath and jump right in.

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