A poem about the loss of a dream |
Once upon a time in a not so distant land, there was a woman who had fallen in love with a knight of a man. Her love, as true and rare as diamonds, her dreams, sparkling like gold ; fueled her hunger for happiness untold. Nothing could shake her incredulous faith that love conquered all. Until one day her infallible knight told her a tale of infidelity, of two ships passing in the night. And just like a piece of coal that cooled after coming alive in a blaze of fire; her dreams had been reduced to ashes of unfulfilled desires. Her heart like a rock thrown into still waters that ran deep, sank so low she couldn’t breathe. Her knight had turned out to be a cad. He was all she had wanted, his love all she had. She couldn’t believe that she didn’t safeguard her heart, that she didn't hide or shield it from the start. So now she was left with this indelible pain, and memories of a knight who could have had every thing. Listening to all those once upon a times and fairy tales, she realized one thing; there was no prince, there was no knight. That all the love she thought she had, were all just dreams. And even though she loved her knight, from him she would recover. But the heartbreak from a death of a dream could last forever. Third place winner in the Poem a Day Contest Word count: 240 Line count 38 |