Dreams I See Never End Youth

Dreams I See Never End Youth


A splatter of ink was all it took
To give spark to the smallest idea
Like the burst of flame beside an oil puddle
To bring forth light to all who see.

It started in a deep dark mine
Diamonds glistening with promise and cheer
To put upon a maiden's hand
Who was the fairest in all the land.

To add to this mixture of dreams
One needed two more ingredients.
The blood of a mother
And the tears of a child.

Once added a new age would dawn upon us
One of animated prosperity
Where trees can dream of human lives
And nightmarish wings glow with fantasies.

Following suit was a dreamer of cards
In the teatime of the never-ending race
Alongside a princess maid
With diamond eyes and glass slippers.

Flying high across our dreams
The master of dreams seemed to never stop
Not even when dogs would sleep
With thumbs bleeding into their silk.

Give me 8 and a half dozen stones
And I will show you the true king
While his shadow runs free with beasts
With wishes to be not man, but cat.

And then came the day those drawn to fate
Prayed would never come.
Even with the merriest of men
Nothing could prevent the day their god died.

The show still went on with magic so strong
Across acres of forest when children would plea
"Who will rescue me from my nightmares
Now that the king of make-believe is forever asleep?"

Enemies were made by nature, yet were friends by fate
Stirring within a cauldron of lies
In the thickest fog of the queen's city
While the new world city pulses its beat.

The mermaids waved their goodbye
And those who rescued us soon retired
Into a new world both fearful yet exciting
Filled with beauty and accursed fear.

Even when a pretender came to the throne
Ruling over a whole new world
We still waited to see the false king
Fall from the land the light touched.

From the grand winds of the north
To the far eastern lands
We went back into the days of gods
All to keep up the illusion of magic.

Yet it came in the year of a new century
We finally realised the truth.
That the old kingdom must step aside at last
For a new land of colour to fall light upon.

A land that promised never to forget
Even the nobodies whom no one could find
And that the dreaded nightmares of our darkest sleep
Were just as afraid of us as we were of them.

And here we are at the end of the race
Ready to sample the finest dishes
Of a new epoch from a shining lamp
That one day we may have a new god
To revive the magic for another century.