by Jennifer Lawson

Created on: November 19, 2008

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN...

What happens when you close your eyes and sleep is just out of reach.

When all is quiet and dark and the air is filled with the dreams of the weary

What happens when there is no one to hear the cries and the pleas for rest

When you've searched and hoped and begged and waited for freedom for so long

What happens when you know that in the light your open eyes will reveal the truth

When you are reminded that nothing has changed, no knight has come, no holes have been filled

What happens when all is stripped away and the only thing within reach is yourself

When you have to rely on the one that has failed you over and over again and again

What happens when you can only try to find inside yourself what led you before

When you are left with just you and your mind and the unyielding memories of pain

What happens when the doors are closed to that place of safety and calm

When you reach and in its place nothing is there but the hole in time and space

What happens when your imagination can no longer create a place for dreams and wishes

When all of the tales that kept you looking are no longer waiting for you

What happens when the quiet is so heavy that you can't move under it's weight

When reality overtakes all of the places that hope once had control over

What happens when you accept that the darkness, silence, and fear win

When all you ever knew was going to be there for you is revealed as false

What happens when you have no more left to give and no more left to take

When you become a shell like so many others of what could have been,
what should have been,
what never was,
and it seems
was never meant to be

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