Aeternus, Eternus

Silent Dreamers

A silent hope
A simple dream
Secret wishes---
All that is,
Just to live.

We, who cannot love
Yet we do.
We, who should not be,
Yet we are.
We, who seek to live...

But we can't.
Chained forever to cruel fate---
Of love, sorrow and duty.
We cannot leave, not now
Our fellows languish in hopeless misery.

All that is, our lives
Are as dust in the wind---
Expendable, ephemereal
A forgotten dream
All except...

Our hopes.
We breathe, speak
Laugh and sing
Yet our paths lay bare,
No future, all lies

In a shadowed world
Our lives across checkered plains
Mere pawns in a greater game.
All we ask is a chance to live
But yet, that is too much already.
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Dedicated to my Hydras. Perhaps this is who they really are, Silent Dreamers, every last one of them. I write for them, in quiet understanding. Seeking forgiveness for myself, redemption for them, that perhaps one day I can finally come to terms with the people we are.

This is Estrea, aka Krista. Signing out.