Only a dream

So much time spent in the darkness.
My heart and soul stored in cold places.
Walls behind my eyes, letting nothing show.
If there is no hope, you can't be hurt, right?

Then you were there, are you a dream?
Sunburst smile and eyes that melt me.
Hope thawed my shattered heart.
Throwing caution aside to love again.

But you were a dream. Only a dream.
I fooled myself, thinking you were mine.
And some of you always will be mine.
Slowly, I woke from that beautiful dream.

The darkness is waiting for me, I know.
My sun is still out, but behind a cloud.
Standing in the doorway to my dark room,
I look back, tears unshed, wanting, yearning.

Stepping inside, I close the door.