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Dreams are lies Evocative tales our hearts create Dreams are all I'll never know. All the places I wont go They taunt me All I see In my colorless dreams Fragile Shattered before my eyes Before my hands Can close upon them.

I could burn screaming Through the night sky To crash And have it all   Instead to cliff's edge Catch myself on the brink To have solid ground crumble And begin to fall, Begin to fall.   Who will catch me now? What will stop my descent Fall into Oblivion White angel wings enfold me Inside I feel so small, Feel so small.   Place me upon that sad height At a table known in myth To sit upon a throne of hope My glass flowing over with Joy Given rest at last I finally crash into it ...

Why would I tell you my heart breaks When a sweetness whispered heals it anew? How can I tell you I feel you? In my heart, behind my eyes. I can't reach you Only see you.   I see you've pulled away from me Letting darkness take you in My heart still beats for you, But does yours still beat true?   Shadow cannot hold you The light you cast Shatters the deepest gloom. Where do your heartstrings go? That I might pull you back to me.   I see you now and smile Kn...

Burning fast Burning high Memories of days gone by On the pyre Where all dreams burn to ash Long since extinguished Still bright Standing in the night Breath freezing on the air To see it burn Cinders crumbling Crushed in angry fists Trampled into the soil Covered now By time and memory All but forgotten Never remembered Ash stained snow And tragedy Trapped beneath the ice

“The Water Tower” It wasn’t quite two in the morning yet when Leslie pulled up to the water tower. She parked one the far side of the tower, away from the road. The night was full of cricket music, the tiny musicians playing in a discordant symphony. Dry leaves crackled underfoot as Leslie stepped out of her car. She shook her head when she spotted Jim’s car, a lovingly restored Dodge Charger. She didn’t remember what year it was from, she never could. As if to further confirm his presence, L...